Hannah Chapelhow

Hannah specialises in public procurement.

She has over 15 years’ experience advising clients across a range of sectors including health, local government, transport, real estate and technology. Her key clients include local authorities and NHS bodies, universities and colleges, utilities, private sector providers and voluntary sector organisations.

Hannah is known for delivering innovative, risk-focused and pragmatic advice to a wide range of clients. She undertakes a large part of her work advising contracting authorities on a range of procurement issues from strategic risk advice at the outset of a project to the review and drafting of tender documentation and the management of potential and actual legal challenges. She also advises bidder clients on the procurement regulations with a particular emphasis on the remedies available and the potential for challenge.

Hannah’s experience of acting on both sides of a number of challenges gives her advice an added dimension when acting for clients as it allows her to identify and mitigate likely challenge triggers in a procurement process. She also has experience of running user-friendly procurement training sessions, chairing moderation meetings and delivering handover workshops at the close of a project.

Hannah is skilled at finding solutions to procurement related issues. Her capacity to quickly gain a deep understanding of both the procurement and commercial drivers on a matter and her ability to question an intended approach allows a proposed procurement strategy to be tested to ensure that it can deliver the right solution for a project with the minimum of procurement risk.

Relevant experience includes advising:

• A unitary authority on the creation of a joint venture vehicle with another local authority for land development.
• An NHS client on the use of game theory in a procurement process.
• A number of NHS Foundation Trusts on the procurement implications of setting up a “Teckal” service delivery company.
• An NHS Trust on the procurement of a Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS) contract.
• A local authority on the complex extension of a concession arrangement under the Concession Contracts Regulations.