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Risk management

 

Risks associated with the procurement process should be kept under regular review and be proactively managed by the contracting authority throughout the process until contract award. We work closely with our clients to ensure the associated risks of any procurement are identified at the earliest stage, and properly managed. Our contentious experience ensures we minimise or avoid such risks. 

Risks associated with the commercial terms also need to be identified and allocated to a specific party. Our procurement solicitors prepare risk matrices for clients of the headline risks associated with a contract and facilitate the client’s discussions with bidders as to the most cost-effective allocation of risk. 

“Standout practice group, which is regularly involved in high-profile cases. Offers broad commercial litigation capabilities, alongside expertise in procurement challenges.”

Chambers & Partners

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  • 12 December 2022
  • Public Procurement

10 tips for challenging award of contract

How can you best prepare for a procurement challenge? Here are our top 10 tips.

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  • 21 November 2022
  • Public Procurement

Public procurement – what is coming up in 2023?

Next year will see the biggest changes to public procurement law in more than a decade when the Procurement Bill 2022 passes into law (this is currently expected to be sometime around mid-2023). 

Pub
  • 07 October 2022
  • Public Procurement

Procurement challenges

Taking prompt advice is essential as unsuccessful bidders have just ten days within which to issue court proceedings if they want to benefit from the automatic suspension provided for in the Regulations, which prevents the contracting authority from awarding the contract to anyone else.

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  • 13 September 2022
  • Public Procurement

Procurement Challenge – we should have won

There is little more disheartening for a bid writer or other procurement specialist, after investing time and energy into preparing the best possible bid to win a public contract, than receiving a letter politely explaining that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion but hoping that you will, all the same, bid for future contracts when the opportunity arises.

Pub
  • 06 September 2021
  • Public Procurement

Top tips for making clarification questions work

Clarification questions are an integral part of any procurement process. Do not be afraid of submitting them – it is better to raise a question (even if it then means that your competitors get the benefit of the responses provided) than to make an incorrect assumption about what the contracting authority wants.

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  • 25 February 2021
  • Public Procurement

Public Procurement Annual Update 2021

With major changes to public procurement on the horizon, this year’s annual update is more important than ever. Everyone working in public procurement will be affected.

“I was so impressed with the service that we received. We have subsequently found out that, as we suspected, this was the replacement for a very significant framework. That makes the result immeasurably more important to us. I have always said that Clarkslegal was a first class firm and this result, together with the manner of the service provided, admirably underpins my long held view.”

ChandlerKBS

We engaged Clarkslegal to support us with a procurement issue. They quickly understood our position and represented us effectively within challenging timescales. I found their service to be thorough, professional and responsive.” 

Itec Training Solutions Limited