Frederik Haugsted

I'm an associate in our international Public Procurement group and Competition & EU group in Denmark with a commitment to achieve pragmatic and measurable commercial solutions for our clients.

As a part of the Danish Public Procurement team and the Competition & EU team, I am involved in a broad range of domestic and international cases in competition law and public procurement law.

Project planning and management is crucial to our client service. In my experience, project planning and a realistic structuring of the procurement process must not be underestimated as this is a key element of reaping the benefits of the public procurement rules. Drawing on this experience, I pay particular attention to this in my work and I find the strategic organisation of the procurement process very interesting and valuable for our clients.

I advise public contracting entities with planning and completion of all phases of the procurement process, including technical dialogue with the market, drafting and quality assurance of procurement documents, preparation of framework agreements, conducting the prequalification evaluation, negotiations and evaluations of tenders. I have valuable insight from both sides of a procurement project, as I also assist tenderers in the tendering process.

I have advised our clients on several competition & EU law matters, including antitrust cases; dealing with abuse of dominance, competition restricting agreements, compliance programmes and setting up selective distribution and franchise systems. I am a part of our Competition & EU group's newsletter editorial committee which provides insight on recent developments in competition law internationally. As a member of the committee, I know the majority of Bird & Bird's competition lawyers worldwide and so I am always able to find the right lawyer to meet our clients' needs.