Jennifer Kopco
Lawyer
Business Sectors: Construction, Infrastructure
HFK Rechtsanwälte
Stephanstraße 3
60313 Frankfurt am Main
T +49 69 9758 2214 6
F +49 69 9758 2222 5
E kopco@hfk.de
Profile
- Lawyer specialising in public procurement law
- Solution-oriented thinking and negotiating
- Long-standing training assistant at a large corporate law firm, with early specialisation in public procurement law
- Additional qualifications in medical, pharmaceutical and food law
Key Expertise
- Advising on public procurement law matters for national and pan-European public contract awarding processes
- Providing advice and representation in the public sector for tendering public contracts in all phases of procurement, as well as full exoneration of clientele in administrating the awarding process (e-tendering)
- Advising procurement procedures, especially in the construction and service sectors: Procurement of architectural and engineering services in the context of complex construction projects (especially hospital buildings, day nursery buildings, fire stations)
- Design contests
- IT procurement (also in the security and defence sector)
- Advising procurement procedures in the context of smart cities projects (research and development work)
- Advising and representing private companies in the enforcement of their interests as participants in public procurement
- Representation in complaint and review procedures
Career
- Lawyer at HFK Rechtsanwälte Heiermann Franke Knipp & Partner mbB, since 2021
- Research assistant at a large corporate law firm with specialisation in public procurement law and public commercial law, from 2016 to 2021
- Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, from 2018 to 2021
- Law studies at the Philipps University Marburg, from 2010 to 2016
- DVNW (German Network for Public Procurement Law)
- Die Vergabe von Objektüberwachungsleistungen im Rahmen komplexer Funktionsbauten – wenn der Markt nicht mitspielt…, Vortrag Speyerer Vergaberechtstage 2022
- Und es gibt sie doch: Beschaffungsdienstleistung als “echte” Rechtsberatung, NZBau 2022, 74-78 (Co-author Dr. Jörg Stoye)
Co-author of the legal journal juris PraxisReport-Vergaberecht
- Formvorgaben im Vergabeverfahren – Bieter tun gut daran, sich an diese zu halten, jurisPR-VergR 7/2022 Note 4
- Keine Rügeobliegenheit des an der Auftragsvergabe beteiligten Unternehmens bei sog. de-facto-Vergabe, jurisPR-VergR 4/2022 Note 2
- Postdienstleistungen – Losvergabe als wichtiges Instrument der Wettbewerbsförderung auf besonderen Dienstleistungsmärkten, jurisPR-VergR 11/2021 Note 4
- Zum Anwendungsbereich der Konzessionsvergabe und den Transparenzanforderungen an die Erteilung glücksspielrechtlicher Erlaubnisse, jurisPR 12/2021 Note 2