Catherine Mulroney

Experience

Catherine is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial team who specialises in procurement challenges and Commercial Dispute Resolution.

Catherine is experienced in acting for and advising clients in large scale procurement challenges, representing bidders and contracting authorities across the healthcare sector.

Being acutely aware of litigation’s financial and other opportunity costs, Catherine is always mindful of other options to resolve disputes without recourse to Court action. She has often concluded disputes in a timely and cost effective manner via Alternative Dispute Resolution such as Mediation. However, if it is required, Catherine also has extensive experience in litigating matters to trial and subsequently enforcing judgments.

Expertise

Catherine adds value by giving commercially sound and practical advice to clients. She does this by focusing on her clients’ desired outcomes and understanding the markets in which her clients operate.

A selection of Catherine’s work highlights include:

• Defending 15 ICBs within a £85m procurement dispute. An unsuccessful tenderer claimed that there were manifest errors in the scoring procedures implemented by the contract evaluators and/or that the process was unlawful due to purportedly undisclosed evaluation criteria.

• Represented a primary care provider who was unsuccessful in its bid for various Alternative Provider Medical Services and Walk in Centres. The allegations pertained to manifest errors made in the assessment of the unsuccessful tenderer’s bid, leading to the prompt provision of early disclosure of all evaluation materials.

• Defending an ICB in a £97m procurement challenge for the provision of home oxygen services. The unsuccessful bidder claimed that the ICB had acted irrationally in accepting an abnormally low bid and/or there were manifest errors in the scores awarded. Highly favourable settlement terms reached on behalf of the ICB.

• Defending 22 ICBs in a £168m procurement challenge for clinical waste contracts. The principal allegations centre around the design and application of the commercial (pricing) schedule and the evaluation of bids.

Admitted as a Solicitor 

 2018

Qualifications 

• LL.B (Hons) Law, University of Winchester, 2015 
• LPC. MSc in Law Business and Management, University of Law (Guildford), 2016