What is it legal Assistance

Legal assistance is a professional service provided by a lawyer or a team of lawyers, aimed at an individual, a sole proprietorship, or a legal entity, to assist in the implementation of the law to improve the legal situation. For example, in the context of Prozorro public procurement, legal assistance concerns the fair conduct of the tender at all its stages.

What Does Legal Assistance in Electronic Tendering Include?

Public procurement participants have the opportunity at any stage to contact the SmartTender legal team for advice or full assistance. This may include the following issues:

1. 1. Answers to questions related to changes in legislation.
   2. Checking of the tender offer (including checking of competitors' offers) for correctness and compliance with the customer's requirements.
   3. Assistance with the preparation of documents for the tender offer.
   4. Assistance with filing a complaint with the Antimonopoly Committee in case of violation by the customer of the tendering rules.
   5. Representation of the interests of the supplier or state customer in the AMCU.
   6. Assistance to the customer with the preparation of tender documentation.

A more detailed description of possible legal assistance and its cost is available on this page.

Do You Need Legal Assistance in Commercial Purchases?

Since the procedure of commercial bidding is not regulated by law, each organizer decides at their discretion how exactly to conduct the procurement and choose the winner. Therefore, legal assistance from the electronic trading platform is not provided for this type of procedure. If desired, the supplier can prepare a tender offer, using the services of their lawyer, and in case of violation of their rights after concluding the contract, apply to the court.

Do You Need Legal Assistance to Participate in Prozorro.Sale Auctions?

State auctions for the sale and lease of state and communal property do not require participants to prepare a complex application. It is enough to carefully familiarize yourself with the conditions of participation, pay the required fees and add documents (if they are required by the organizer at all). Since the winner of online auctions is the one who offered the highest price, there is no need to check your competitors, and it is in the interests of the customer to honestly fulfill the conditions of the Prozorro.Sale auction.

If desired, the participant can use the services of their lawyer to check the object put up for auction.