Victoria Fletcher

Victoria Fletcher is a Public Law lawyer in our London office.  She specialises in procurement and state aid.

Victoria's recent experience includes:

• Working with a Clinical Commissioning Group to procure a single, out of hospital case contract which will transform the delivery of care in that area over the next 10 years.
• Managing procurement for the design and build of a new, out of town shopping centre for a local authority, from strategy through to standstill. Victoria worked with the Council's officers and technical consultants to develop the evaluation criteria and scoring methodology.
• Advising a utility on a £500 million procurement for the national replacement of its PDA hardware estate and associated software applications using the negotiated procedure, from inception of the process through to supporting with debrief issues. Support included drafting the procurement documents, advising on different methods of evaluation and assisting the client to develop an electronic sealed bids stage.

Victoria qualified in 2009 and joined DAC Beachcroft in 2013. Prior to joining DAC Beachcroft, Victoria worked as an in-house local authority solicitor at a number of large county councils. Whilst at Hertfordshire County Council, Victoria was assistant solicitor in the case of J Varney & Sons Waste Management v Hertfordshire County Council, the first domestic appellate case to consider CJEU case law on transparency and how it related to the disclosure of sub-criteria and weightings. Victoria was also involved in the creation of Council's first local authority controlled company. At Surrey County Council, amongst other things, Victoria worked with officers on the transformation of adult social care and the assisted in the successful delivery of the 2012 Olympics cycle event.