Steven Condie
Steven is a highly experienced commercial lawyer focused on public procurement, contracting, subsidy control and public law. He advises a range of central government clients in the UK and private sector organisations engaging with central government. Steven has led DLA Piper team advising clients on the impact and implementation of the Procurement Act 2023. He has recently advised a central government on the establishment of two UK-wide statutory schemes in the waste area and a non-departmental public body with a global reach on the procurement outsourcing of its extensive IT, HR, finance and procurement functions to a Tier 1 global supplier. Currently, Steven advises a private sector client on a proposed very significant grant agreement supporting the clean energy transition in a strategic industrial sector, as well as advising clients on the implementation of the Procurement Act 2023.
He also recently drafted new schedules relating to intellectual property and security management for the UK Government's standard contracts. Previously, Steven advised the UK Health Security Agency on its Covid-19 response, including leading one of its legal teams on a part-time secondment basis.
Before joining DLA Piper, Steven was a deputy-director in the Government Legal Department, where he advised the Cabinet Office on strategic government-wide outsourcing agreements, and led legal teams advising the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs and the Department for Transport.