Merkys

Public procurement work, drafted from the law and your evidence.

Merkys Law is an AI assistant for public procurement in Lithuania, built with practising procurement lawyers. It turns a contracting authority’s request and your supporting documents into a proof strategy you approve, then a cited draft grounded in procurement law, case law and VPT guidance.

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CITED LAW LAWYER-BUILT METHOD ON-PREMISE
EXAMPLE · ABNORMALLY LOW PRICE
The authority asks us to justify our price for lot 2. Their letter and our cost breakdown are attached.
The letter asks three questions. Here is a proof strategy for your review before I draft the reply:
1Labour costs: payroll records and the applicable collective agreement
2Materials: supplier quotes dated before the bid deadline
3Overheads: shared resources from an existing contract· open question
STRATEGY READY · AWAITING YOUR APPROVAL
Illustrative example.

Six problems procurement teams bring to us, and how Merkys Law solves them.

Public procurement rewards precise, well-grounded documents written under tight deadlines. Each row is a problem we hear from suppliers and their lawyers, and what Merkys Law does about it.

  1. 01

    A price-justification request, on a short deadline.

    When a contracting authority flags a price as abnormally low, the supplier has only days to explain it with evidence, or risk having the bid rejected.

    Merkys Law reads the authority’s letter, identifies each question it asks, and proposes lines of proof, the supporting documents you need, open questions and warnings, before anything is drafted.

  2. 02

    Generic AI writes long letters that don’t persuade.

    A general chatbot produces pages of plausible text that miss the authority’s questions and cite the wrong law, or none.

    Drafts follow a methodology written with procurement lawyers. They answer each question, cite the law, case law and VPT commentary behind each point, show the calculations, and leave visible placeholders where evidence is missing instead of inventing it.

  3. 03

    You need to stay in control of the argument.

    The supplier knows the business and the lawyer knows the law. Neither wants an AI deciding what to argue.

    The strategy is a review step. Keep or remove arguments, add comments and evidence, then approve drafting. Follow-up letters from the authority become further rounds in the same conversation, with earlier rounds as context.

  4. 04

    Relevant case law is hard to find and keep current.

    Judgments sit in different courts, languages and databases, and checking whether a source is still current takes time nobody bills for.

    Resolve EU court case numbers, choose the documents and languages you need, add the judgments to your knowledge base and see when they have been updated. VPT commentary is included as non-binding guidance.

  5. 05

    Your method lives in one lawyer’s head.

    How a firm argues a case is its edge, but it is rarely written down, so quality depends on who drafts.

    Authorised administrators edit the rules and letter standard Merkys Law drafts with, preview the changes, see version history and restore earlier versions. Lawyers mark answers and letter sections as good or needing work, with notes.

  6. 06

    Client files are confidential.

    Bids, cost breakdowns and correspondence are commercially sensitive and can’t be pasted into a public AI service.

    Merkys Law can be installed on your own servers with local models, so client documents, indexes and conversations stay in your environment.

What Merkys Law includes.

Available now, plus the workflows we are building with our partner lawyers.

Available now

Abnormally low price justification

From the authority’s letter and your evidence to a proof strategy you approve, then a cited justification letter with calculations and placeholders for any gaps.

STRATEGY · REVIEW · DRAFT

Procurement law knowledge

Lithuanian public procurement law, the EU judgments you select and VPT commentary, searched together with your own documents.

LAW · CASE LAW · VPT

EU case-law ingestion

Resolve case numbers, pick documents and languages, ingest judgments into your knowledge base, and re-ingest or remove them when they change.

EU COURT CASES

Editable methodology

The drafting rules and letter standard are versioned. Preview changes, compare versions and restore an earlier one.

VERSIONED RULES

Lawyer feedback

Mark answers, proof items and letter sections as good or needing improvement, with notes that feed back into the method.

SECTION-LEVEL FEEDBACK

Law-change notifications

Track changes to the legislation you work with and get email updates daily, weekly or as soon as they are found.

DAILY · WEEKLY · IMMEDIATE

In development with our partner lawyers

Confidentiality justification

Reasoned justification for treating parts of a bid as confidential.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Complaints and specification review

Review tender specifications for restrictive requirements, and draft complaints and supporting documents for a tender.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Lithuanian court practice analysis

Find how Lithuanian courts have decided similar procurement disputes and what the established practice is.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Need justification for healthcare buyers

Help hospitals and clinics explain, with medical and legal grounding, why they need a specific product when the lowest bid doesn’t meet clinical needs.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Drafts you can stand behind.

Merkys Law prepares documents for a lawyer to review. It shows its sources and reasoning, and it leaves gaps visible.

REVIEW
Every draft is for a lawyer’s review before it is used.
SOURCES
Lithuanian procurement law, EU case law you select, VPT commentary and your own documents.
OUTPUT
Procurement letters are drafted in Lithuanian and downloadable as Word, PDF or Markdown.
DEPLOYMENT
Kubernetes, on-premise or in your private cloud.
DATA
Client documents, indexes and conversations stay in your environment.
ACCESS
Roles and permissions control who sees which matters and who can change the methodology.

Questions we hear from procurement lawyers and suppliers

Who is Merkys Law for?

Suppliers bidding in Lithuanian public tenders and the lawyers who advise them. Tools for buying organisations, starting with healthcare purchasers, are in development.

Does it replace a lawyer?

No. Merkys Law prepares a strategy and a draft that a lawyer reviews and approves. It shows the sources behind each point and leaves visible placeholders where evidence is missing.

What do we need to provide for a price justification?

The contracting authority’s letter and the material that supports your price, such as cost breakdowns, supplier quotes and contracts. Merkys Law tells you which documents each line of proof needs.

Which legal sources does it use?

Lithuanian public procurement law, EU court judgments you choose to add, VPT commentary as non-binding guidance, and your own documents. Each claim in a draft cites its source.

What language are the drafts in?

Procurement letters are drafted in Lithuanian. The interface is available in Lithuanian and English.

Can we suggest a workflow?

Yes. We build each workflow with practising lawyers. Tell us which procurement tasks take most of your time and we’ll show you what is available and what is on the way.

See Merkys Law on one of your procurement cases.

Book a 30-minute demo. We’ll walk through a price justification from letter to draft, and talk through the workflows coming next.

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