Public procurement advisory
Karl Erik Steinbakk — lawyer, procurement adviser and consultant
I have worked on public procurement for about 18 years — as head of procurement and adviser in municipalities and in the Norwegian Armed Forces, as an independent consultant, and as the lawyer of a municipally owned IT company. The focus is larger procurements in IT and technical fields, frame agreements and negotiations.
If you need help with a procurement, a second opinion on tender documents or someone to work with in a negotiation, I am happy to talk.
What I can help with
- Planning, leading and running larger public procurements, especially IT and technical procurement.
- Tender documents, requirement specifications, qualification requirements and award criteria.
- Frame agreements, mini-competitions and call-offs.
- Competitive procedures with negotiation, and leading the negotiations.
- Contracts and contract law, especially standard IT contracts.
- Evaluating offers and stating the reasons for the award.
- Organising procurement projects with many participants.
Experience
- 2019 –
Lawyer, municipally owned IT company
Lawyer in an IT company of about 170 employees that delivers IT services to its 13 owner municipalities.
- 2017 – 2019
Adviser, City of Bergen, corporate procurement
Ran public tender competitions for larger procurements and frame agreements.
- 2016
Independent consultant
Consulting assignments in public procurement, among others for Ringerike municipality.
- 2014 – 2015
Adviser and project manager, IT unit of Ringerike municipality
Ran larger procurements, among them a new server room with its equipment, cooling and backup power, and took part in IT projects.
- 2013 – 2014
Founder and consultant, Escape AS / Perid AS
Set up a company of my own around a web solution.
- 2010 – 2013
Head of procurement, Ringerike municipality
Announced and concluded larger contracts and frame agreements, and advised the municipality's buyers.
- 2008 – 2010
Adviser and senior adviser, Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation (FLO)
Responsible for concluding and following up the Armed Forces' frame agreements for daily operations, mainly air and land procurement.
- 2005 – 2006
Associate, DLA Nordic / DLA Piper
IT, telecom, media, copyright and employment law.
Education
- 1998 – 2004
Cand.jur. (Master of Laws), University of Oslo
Thesis on change provisions in standard IT contracts, compared with the standards for petroleum and construction contracts.
- 1996 – 1998
Infantry Officer Candidate School
Officer training and a year of service as a section leader.
Courses
- Negotiation strategy (MBA certification) — Tekna
- Negotiation technique — Firstventura / Inventura
- Negotiating contracts and frame agreements (advanced) — Difi
- Advanced public procurement — Firstventura / Inventura
- Qualification requirements and award criteria — Difi
- Legal refresher courses and seminars, GDPR among them
OffAnsk
That experience is also the basis for OffAnsk, a management system for larger public procurements that I am building: criteria and specifications, evaluation with many evaluators, frame agreements and mini-competitions.
Get in touch
Send a message through the contact form, or find me on LinkedIn.