📃 REVIEW OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT DIRECTIVE: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF ICT PROCUREMENT?

📊 Overview: public procurement challenges in 2025

The 2025 statistics provide a clear picture of the main trends and focal points in public procurement dispute practice.

The conference "EU Public Procurement anno 2025 – Are the rules fit for purpose?" took place in Copenhagen on April 23–24, 2025, offering an insightful and future-oriented discussion on the EU public procurement framework. As a participant, I had the opportunity to listen to the views of various experts, policymakers, and practicing specialists, reflecting the widespread need to update the existing rules and make the entire system more effective and goal-oriented.

We are delighted to announce that Matteus Law Firm has joined Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (officially abbreviated as ITL) as an associate member!

The law firm is made up of the people who carry the firm’s values, work towards a common goal, and advise its clients. In short, it's a team. We are now two in the team!

🏆 In the fall, we always count our chickens, and Who's Who Legal released the results for this year's Government 2024 category on Friday. I'm very grateful to my clients and competitors for the recognition once again this year! :) "WWL: Government highlights the top lawyers worldwide for public procurement matters." The entire list provides a great overview of the top public procurement lawyers in Estonia. 👏

Read more: Who’s Who Legal: Government 2024 Rankings

But what exactly are lawyer rankings and recognitions like Who’s Who Legal, Legal500, and Chambers? These are legal ranking agencies that collect feedback from clients and market participants to determine who are the best lawyers and firms in their respective fields. While Legal500 and Chambers focus more on firm rankings (though Legal500 is increasingly rating individual lawyers as well), Who’s Who Legal specializes in evaluating individual lawyers, not firms.

Dear clients and partners – we have moved to a new location!

Starting from July, you can find us in the Skyon building at Maakri 30, 10145 Tallinn.

Stop by for a coffee and a chat – the view’s quite nice too :)

Want to win procurement contracts in Estonia as a cross-border tenderer but do not have a good overview of the local system? Then look here to get to know the basics.

In November 2023, I attended the Estonian Public Procurement Conference and presented an overview of the European Court of Justice and General Court decisions in the field of public procurement from the previous year. The annual conference is a good opportunity to see familiar faces, meet new ones, and stay informed about developments in the field.

While the European Court interprets procurement directives mainly through preliminary rulings (usually recognizable by the letter "C" in the decision), it is also worth keeping an eye on General Court decisions (starting with the letter "T"). Although the General Court resolves procurement disputes involving EU agencies under the financial regulation, the court has found that when the regulation is the same as in the directive, the Court of Justice's decisions on interpreting the directive are taken into account and vice versa.

Here are some key takeaways from this year's decisions made before November 1, 2023:

Model tender documents have been prepared in accordance with the principles of legal design

From the Supreme Court's website, you can now read about the pillars of fair trial in the paradigm of administrative court procedure.