Novel Procurements
Strategic Disposals
Complex Projects
Providing an even-handed, sensitive and pragmatic guiding hand, including in circumstances where traditional procurement tools and processes are not the right fit.
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Independent assessment of process viability​
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Strategic project-related land disposal​
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Efficient, agile and defensible process design and implementation, maintaining probity​
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Impartially guiding structured negotiations
Services
Pinpoint review and strategy confirmation
Conventional procurement processes may hit an iceberg for a number of reasons. Seek an assurance review by an independent expert experienced in government procurement and trained as an OGC Gateway Review Team Member.
Process remediation
Tender processes are an investment in terms of time and cost. They are vulnerable to being inadvertently compromised by protocol deviations. If there is a way to recover the process and the deal legally and in accordance with probity principles, DealsAssist will identify it and guide you through.
Legal services
Procurement regulatory advice, tender process design, process conditions, contract drafting, departures consideration and advice and negotiation through to contract execution.
About
DealsAssist was founded in 2025 by Kerry Gibson BA/LLB; MTAX, to provide independent, economical and practical legal procurement assistance to cost-conscious clients in both public and private sectors. Kerry has years of experience working as a senior lawyer and probity advisor to government procurement and project teams, honing a solutions-focussed approach.
Kerry has also acted as a front-end advisor to private clients drafting and negotiating high value construction contracts. On the supplier-side, she has provided support in tender responses, contract negotiation and the development of contracting frameworks and precedents, in industries ranging from the gas exploration engineering sector through to architectural services and IT contracting services.
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Kerry is a member of the UDIA Logan Committee, Building Dispute Practitioners' Society Queensland Chapter, Energy and Resources Law Association, Society of Construction Lawyers Australia and the Queensland Law Society.
Kerry Gibson acted for the principal in the negotiation of the design and construct contract for the $122 million Sea Glass project in Broadbeach- expected completion 2027.
As the public health service's acting Deputy General Counsel (Commercial), Kerry Gibson assisted in the preparation of tender documents for the $105 million Secure Mental Health Unit project (Gold Coast).
Kerry Gibson advised on the construction aspects of the contract for the Astra Lumina installation at Currumbin.
As in-house counsel, Kerry Gibson advised on the tender process and contract for the $6 million Redcliffe Hospital Electrical Reticulation Project, completed in 2019.