Kuldip Dhanoya

Kuldip provides strategic advice from initial procurement scoping through to contract close, including early market engagement, drafting tender documentation and scoring methodologies, conducting compliant evaluations, de-briefing bidders and raising or responding to procurement challenges. The depth of her experience means that she can identify issues early and employ complex problem-solving skills to devise bespoke strategies to mitigate both procurement and commercial risks.

She has a particular expertise in the establishment and use of PFI/PPPs, frameworks, outsourcing and joint venture arrangements.

Kuldip passed her LLM in Public Procurement Law and Policy (Nottingham Law School) with a distinction and is an executive committee member of the Procurement Lawyers Association.

Jurisdiction: England and Wales

• Kuldip’s substantial experience means she brings a uniquely robust understanding of the significance of and sensitivities involved in managing multiple senior stakeholders. This is best demonstrated in her role leading the GLD Covid Cell. During Covid, she was seconded into the Government Legal Department (GLD) to act as Co-Lead of the Covid Cell jointly leading a core GLD team, alongside a senior GLD lawyer, in advising DHSC across 2 work-streams; the procurement of Test and Trace (T&T) and PPE solutions. During her secondment she was responsible for liaising with both DHSC as the client and GLD operational and management teams.
• More recently she has been acting for a central Government Department, who is leading on the procurement of an ERP and SI provider for a wider cluster of Departments. Kuldip’s role has involved advising on every stage of the procurement process from early market engagement through to selection of the proposed supplier with a view to mitigating procurement risk throughout the process. Her role has also involved working collaboratively with other GLD panel firms who are responsible for delivering similar programmes across other clusters of Government Departments.

   

• Kuldip also regularly provides training to both our public and private sector clients across a wide range of bespoke topics. Most recently she has covered single source procurements, the remits of Regulation 72 modifications, conducting compliant procurement processes and procurement under the Provider Selection Regime. She is also leading the TLT training programme in relation to the implementation of the Procurement Act 2023.