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Sarah Sasse

Sarah Sasse

Legal Director

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Sarah is a leading public sector practitioner, with over 30 years’ experience advising clients on complex IT, outsourcing, and procurement arrangements.

Sarah’s role:

Sarah specialises in leading large, complex public sector projects, particularly those involving strategic procurement, outsourcing, and IT/technology.

By helping clients develop procurement frameworks, formulate negotiation strategies and devise incentivisation methodologies, Sarah has honed her knowledge of the sector and can offer pragmatic advice to help mitigate the risk of a procurement challenge.

Skills and strengths:

Known for her hands on approach, Sarah relishes the challenge of working on complex projects particularly when helping her clients design and negotiate contracts.

Her knowledge of the sector ensures that her contracts address the risks but are still workable for those who manage them over the next five to ten years.

  • Central Government
  • Emergency Services
  • Health
  • Local Government
  • Commercial
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
  • Intellectual property
  • Procurement
  • Technology
  • Advising Ministry of Justice on a range of projects as part of its Evolve programme.
  • Engaged as a Senior Commercial Lawyer in the Test & Trace Legal Team within DHSC advising on a broad spectrum of projects/contracts.
  • Advising MOD on its Future Service Delivery Contract, covering the administration of all Armed Forces’ pay and pensions.
  • Advising Office for National Statistics on its Census Transformation Programme, comprising approximately 20 parallel procurements to support the 2021 Census and the 2019 rehearsal.
  • Advising Birmingham City Council (BCC) on the renegotiation of its 15-year ICT/business services outsourcing contract with Capita.
  • Seconded to Cabinet Office in 2013/2014, Sarah led the drafting/development of the new Model ICT Agreement and standard terms for HM Government’s purchase of goods/services.
  • Advising Department of Health (DoH) and NHS acute trusts on the £5 billion Independent Sector Treatment Centre (ISTC) Programme.
  • Advising London Borough of Croydon on a range of IT and outsourcing/services contracts and procurement issues including: a 10-year IT PFI contract with Capgemini and the subsequent relet of IT services to Capita; the outsourcing of the Council’s care home provision and highways maintenance services.