Christoph Kins

Practice Areas

Dr. Christoph Kins is a specialist lawyer for public procurement law (Fachanwalt für Vergaberecht) and a member of the management team at abante. He advises and represents both clients and bidders, focusing primarily on the design of complex procurement procedures, conflict representation, organizational consulting and quality assurance.

Dr. Kins provides support for construction and IT projects in matters of procurement, contract, and subsidy law. This includes the awarding of all contracts as well as the drafting and negotiation of clear contracts. Dr. Kins also regularly acts in contract enforcement, for example in cases of supplements, damages, and warranties. He defends his clients against the revocation of subsidies and also provides support in the application for funding and the use of funds.

Dr. Kins is a member of the Southeast Regional Group of forum vergabe e.V., a member of the Specialist Lawyers Committee for Public Procurement Law of the Saxony Bar Association, a lecturer in contract and public procurement law, and a member of the German Public Procurement Network and the “Netzwerk Vergabeanwälte.”

Areas of activity

• Public procurement law, assistance in awarding contracts,

• Procurement dispute, procurement liability

• Contract law (especially construction, planning, energy, ICT)

• Project-related legal advice (energy, construction, ICT),

• Subsequent events, obstruction, defect management

• Subsidy law, grant law, subsidy law

• Advising and representing clients, bidders and grant recipients

Education

• specialist lawyer for public procurement law since 2017

• Attorney at law since 2011

• 2nd state examination in Hesse (with distinction)

• 2010 Doctorate in law (Dr. iur.) (scl)

• Legal clerkship in Kassel, Frankfurt/Main, Chicago, Speyer

• 1st state examination in Rhineland-Palatinate (with distinction)

• Studies in Mainz and Rome

• High school diploma in Darmstadt

• School years in Darmstadt and USA

Publications

Kins, Outsourcing the Procurement Office? The Legal Services Act establishes boundaries, Vergabeblog.de, July 31, 2025.

Kins, To Speak or to Remain Silent during Procurement?, staatsanzeiger.de, June 20, 2025.

Kins (co-authored with Dr. Marc Pauka), Perspectives: Abolishing Sub-threshold Procurement Law in NRW – Sensible or Problematic?, Vergabeblog.de, April 17, 2025.

Kins, The "Joint" Awarding of Planning and Execution Services is Not a Solution – A Rebuttal to the Burgi Expert Opinion of February 2024, Vergabeblog.de, May 21, 2024.

Kins, The Awarding of Planning Services following the Repeal of Section 3 (7) Sentence 2 VgV, Vergabeblog.de, April 17, 2023.

Kins, Editorial: Instead of "Procurement Transformation": Reducing Complexity, Developing the Existing, in NZBau Issue 4/2023, p. 209.

Kins, Regional Court (LG) Chemnitz – Incorrect Rejection Letter? Entitlement to Reimbursement of Legal Fees!, VPR 2023, 37.

Kins (co-authored with Günther Pinkenburg), Consulting is a Legal Service – Procurement Services under Antitrust Scrutiny, in: Behörden Spiegel, December 2021 Edition, p. 10.

Kins, Procurement Services under Antitrust Scrutiny (LG Magdeburg, Judgment of Sept. 15, 2021 – 7 O 1109/21), published on Vergabeblog.de on November 25, 2021.

Kins, HOAI and Contract Awarding – New Legal Framework Challenges Administrations, in: Kommunalnachrichten Sachsen-Anhalt KNSA, Vol. 2019, Issue 09, Sept. 23, 2019, No. 335.

Kins, The Awarding of Supply and Service Contracts, in: Dageförde (Ed.), Handbook for Specialists in Procurement Law, Forum Vergabe Series Vol. 53, 2019.

Kins (co-authored with Sören Gemmerich), Compliance in Public Law Foundations – including a commentary on LG Saarbrücken, Judgment of July 23, 2015 – 4 O 346/11, in: LKV 2016, pp. 257 et seq.

Kins and Zimmermann, Insuring Municipalities – How Insurance Brokers Can Participate in Public Procurement Procedures for Insurance Services, in: VALUE – The Consultant Magazine, Issue 2/2015, p. 53.

Kins (co-authored with Christiane Eisert), Technical Services Not Exempt from VAT – Sales Support is Not Equivalent to Mediation, in: VALUE – The Consultant Magazine, Issue 5/2014.

Kins, Recourse of the Tenant's Insurance, in: Privates Eigentum, Issue 11/2014, Law and Taxes, pp. 12 et seq.

Kins, Rescission of Insurance Contracts for Fraud in the Absence of Written Inquiries regarding Risk Circumstances, in: Zeitschrift für die Gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft 2011, Vol. 100, pp. 301 et seq.

Kins (co-authored with Matthias A. Gehm), Case Study on Voluntary Disclosure under Section 371 of the Fiscal Code (AO), in: Steuer und Studium 2010, pp. 658 et seq.

Kins, The Conclusion of the Insurance Contract – An Investigation into the Interaction between Pre-contractual Information Duties and the Conclusion Model, Doctoral Thesis (Diss. iur.), Karlsruhe 2010.

Work Highlights

Award of a general contractor agreement for office building renovation through a negotiated procedure with a prior call for competition, including contract drafting (2019); project value: €6 million.

Award of a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) under a lease model analogous to VOB/A (2021–23), including successful legal representation in review proceedings; project value: €200 million.

Award of a state-wide Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) through a competitive dialogue procedure (2020–22); project value: €3.6 million.

Award of elevator emergency call technology (2023), including complex service items such as maintenance and call center services; project value: €900,000.

Legal support for a cleaning service provider regarding the submission of bids and negotiations for railway station and platform cleaning services (2020–21).

Award of Public Health Service (ÖGD) software services through a negotiated procedure with a prior call for competition (2024); project value: €15 million.

Award of software redevelopment services for a Smart City project based on Open Source Software (OSS) through a negotiated procedure with a prior call for competition (2024); project value: €250,000.

Procurement and contract law support for a healthcare service provider in disputes with a hospital operator (2025).