Dr. Barbara Buhr: A procurement expert with a sure instinct who also explores alternative paths.

An ageing highway bridge, a school for a new residential area or the renovation of a contaminated ministry building: Public construction and infrastructure projects have to be completed quickly. However, the strict rules of public procurement law apply to the utilization of public funds. Procurement specialist Dr. Barbara Buhr is familiar with the problems. She knows how the public sector can realize its projects, not only in compliance with the law but also on time and on budget.

While Barbara focuses on the individual project, she also makes suggestions on how the administration can optimize its processes within the project as well as for future awards. She also encourages her clients to break new ground, for example by utilizing technology and AI. In this way, she supports public sector organizations in their transformation into modern service providers.

Her mission

Barbara helps public authorities to optimize their strategic positioning. Her aim is to help authorities become more efficient and faster in future projects.

Barbara’s legal services also go beyond the pure procurement process for individual projects: she manages the entire construction or infrastructure project – side by side with the contracting authorities and experts involved.

Her approach

In Barbara’s experience, it is best for all parties involved in a project to be at the table right from the start. This allows everyone’s concerns and any risks to be taken into account at the planning stage. For Barbara, prudence and tact are the be-all and end-all in what is often a political environment.

Alternative procurement models can be an effective way of speeding up the process. Barbara often takes on an educational role here. Many procurement organizations are not yet familiar with these models.

Barbara looks at the projects in the overall context. There are a number of measures that can accelerate procurement in the long term. Barbara provides proactive advice on this and also supports implementation if required.

Her focus

Public procurement law
Public commercial law
Construction and real estate law
Environmental and planning law
EU state aid and subsidy law
European, constitutional, municipal and budgetary law
Law of the health care industry

The "League of Law" series

Public law is just one of the many topics that are the focus of our “League of Law” series. Dr. Barbara Buhr has more than 340 KPMG Law colleagues across Germany. She can call on KPMG Law’s global network at any time when dealing with cross-border issues.

As a legally independent commercial law firm, KPMG Law is associated and closely linked with KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. This enables Barbara Buhr, together with experts from KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft and its Audit, Tax, Deal Advisory and Consulting divisions, to offer comprehensive, holistic and, if required, international support for her clients’ long-term transformation.

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Dr. Barbara Buhr

"Alternative award models can speed up the process and further increase cost certainty."

Publications

| Dr. Barbara Kathrin Buhr, Dr. Torsten Göhlert, Dr. Moritz Püstow

Awarding contracts to general contractors - A guide for public clients (GU guidelines)

KPMG Law, 2020

Dr. Barbara Kathrin Buhr

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