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Radhika is a Senior Associate in our Projects Team.
Radhika provides high quality, targeted and accessible legal advice across a range of practice areas and delivers effective solutions to legal issues. She has advised on a range of public sector organisations on outsourcing projects, high value service contracts, framework agreements and contract variations.
She delivers pragmatic legal advice and support with a focus on providing solutions for her clients. Working across a number of areas enables Radhika to pass on an in-depth legal knowledge of the matter in hand, but also raise ancillary issues which may not have been identified.
Radhika advises clients on planning for and conducting multi-stage procurement exercises from exploring competition and evaluation strategies, preparing procurement documentation, evaluating tenders, awarding contracts, debriefing bidders and risk management throughout the procurement. She also advises on all aspects of public sector contracts, from the outset of a procurement process, through to completion and dealing with post close contractual issues. Radhika has been involved in a variety of projects spanning a number of industries including, Central Government, Local Government, waste and ICT.
Radhika is skilled in delivering tailored training sessions and breaks down complex areas of law into smaller digestible sections of information, whilst tailoring it to the industry of the audience or the focus of the procurement.
Radhika enjoys working with a range of working styles and tailors the legal / client working arrangements based on client preferences, which includes giving opportunities mid-project to allow for comments on working style and whether any changes are required going forward.
Radhika’s in-depth cross-sector understanding also allows her to understand the core objectives of each client before taking on board the specific project objectives.
Prior to joining Sharpe Pritchard, Radhika spent 10 years advising a leading central London council. Away from the office, she enjoys reading about world affairs and playing the piano.
Case highlights
- Ministry of Justice: Advising the Justice Digital Team in relation to their Service Desk re-procurement, working closely with internal commercial, technical and legal teams
- Department of Health and Social Care: Advising on a major health project in relation to the New Hospital Programme.
- Restoration and Renewal Delivery Authority: Advising on the Houses of Parliament restoration project in relation to the appointment of Fire Consultancy Services.
- Waste Contracts: Advising on a number of waste contracts which has involved drafting bespoke clauses to reflect the negotiation of commercial arrangements agreed between the parties during the competitive dialogue process.
- ICT Projects: Advising various clients, including a central government department, “blue-light” contracting authorities and local authorities in relation to major ICT projects including:
- Procurement for bespoke Software: Advising on the procurement of a new modular software solution that captures, stores and integrates information with existing data presentation platforms and analysis tools.
- Call-off from CCS Framework for the Data Applications Solutions Framework RM3821 - Advised on the call-off process for resource planning and management solutions, including the implications of conducting a direct award, business continuity, security, exit management and service levels.
