HEUKING clears the way for the payment card: Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court permits the award of the refugee payment card contract in 14 German federal states

A team from HEUKING, led by Dr. Martin Schellenberg, successfully represented the federal states in the contract award proceedings for refugee payment cards.

The bidding contest over the refugee payment card has reached its conclusion. The Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court has ruled in favor of the federal states, allowing them to award the contract. Consequently, the contract can now been awarded to secupay AG, a Saxony-based company.

Five bidders engaged in the competition, first through the bidding proceedings and later in the courts. After the contract was awarded to secupay AG, four of the bidders filed petitions for review with the Baden-Württemberg Public Procurement Chamber. In August, all petitions were dismissed. However, one bidder, dissatisfied with this outcome, escalated the case to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court.

On September 20, the Higher Regional Court issued a ruling, rejecting all objections and permitting the federal states to proceed with awarding the contract.

Representing the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein, and Thuringia:
HEUKING:
Dr. Martin Schellenberg (Lead, Public Procurement) Hamburg,
Dr. André Hofmann, LL.M. (Payment Services Supervision), Frankfurt am Main,
Fabian Budde,
Marc Philip Greitens, B.A., LL.B.,
Nils Leonhard (all Public Procurement), all Hamburg