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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). 
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 18 November 2020
  • Public Procurement

Urgent procurement in a pandemic

Depending on the value and size of the contract, a typical procurement run in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 can take anything from a few months to more than a year to conclude.
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  • 10 November 2020
  • Public Procurement

Public Procurement – What happens after Brexit?

It seems a long time ago we were being told during the Brexit referendum that leaving the EU would save us £1.6 billion a year in procurement costs. Since then the UK has left the EU but still remains signed up to the EU procurement rules until 11pm on 31 December 2020. What happens next depends in part on the outcome of the EU/UK trade negotiations but also on the broader question of how the UK wants to run public procurement.
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  • 09 October 2020
  • Public Procurement

New Public Procurement rules to help communities recover from COVID-19

The Government announced new public procurement rules on 24 September 2020 requiring Central Government buyers to evaluate the “social value” of bids when tendering for public contracts (Public Policy Notice 06/20).

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