Mark O'Conor

Mark leads DLA Piper’s relationships with British Airways, Vodafone, LEGO and KPMG. Other clients he works with include National Grid, Close Brothers and the MOD.

Mark has led on the following deals:

• IT Outsourcing and Business Transformation Project for a tier 1 professional services client;
• Ministry of Defence’s Armed Forces Recruitment Service – Mark led the team for the procurement of recruitment services for the three services;
• Ministry of Defence’s project FLIS / BtG - Mark led the team finalizing the interim agreement with BDUK for logistics services;
• National Grid's ADAM framework establishment, Managed Workplace Services, Contingent Labour and Data Centre procurements;
• Tata Steel BPO – advising the client on the outsourcing of its pensions, finance, HR and procurement functions, which had previously been provided in-house, to TCS;
• International Airlines Group’s digital transformation programme (including ERP rationalisation and renegotiation of the enterprise arrangements with Oracle);
• The International Airlines Group Hybrid Cloud digital transformation project (including deals with vendors including Oracle, TCS, IBM, BT and Atos);
• National Grid's ADAM framework establishment;
• The MoJ Future IT Services procurement (acting for preferred bidder Lockheed Martin);
• The Pensions Regulators Employer Compliance Regime competitive dialogue;
• Mark has acted for Ofsted for ten years, originally engaged for Ofsted's competitive dialogue procurement for Early Years Inspection Services and latterly advising on cloud strategy, re-procurement strategy, web site redesign and other commercial matters including the creation of template contracts for the regulator;
• Mark acted for QCA and QCDA from 2006 to its closure. Originally engaged for the "Minerva Project" for the QCA to establish the new Diploma for vocational study, and latterly advising on a range of commercial and IP matters and on the commercial aspects of closure and transfer;
• Mark led a team of 100 lawyers in consortium with PwC and Landwell for the Cabinet Office's Admin Burdens Reduction Project: the first baselining of the administrative burden represented by UK legislation;