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The classical Morse lemma (on the canonical form of a function in a neighbourhood of a nondegenerate critical point) was extended by \textit{F. Mercury} and \textit{G. Palmiery} to the class of \(C^1\)-functions on Hilbert spaces which are twice differentiable at their nondegenerate critical points [Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. VII. Ser., B 1, 621-631 (1987; Zbl 0633.58014)]. In the paper under review the authors extend the more developed parametric versions of the Morse lemma to \({C}^{1,1}\)-functions (that is \({C}^1\)-functions with locally Lipschitz gradient). Several variants of local and global parametric Morse lemma and a variant of the Gromoll-Meyer splitting theorem are given. The author' proves follow the classical scheme of Thom's homotopic method. The transformations which produce the normal form of the function are no longer diffeomorphisms but only Lipschitz homeomorphisms. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0861.00014].