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  • Public Procurement
  • 10 November 2020

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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  • Brexit
  • 12 October 2020

Important procurement announcement for International Trade

In welcome news for UK businesses who bid for overseas government contracts, the UK government has negotiated for the UK to continue as a party to the WTO’s Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) from 1 January 2021 as an independent country.
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  • Public Procurement
  • 09 October 2020

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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  • Public Procurement
  • 09 June 2020

Delaying Challenging a Public Tender Award – Don’t Lose Your Rights!

Timing is critical to the success of a challenge to a public tender. Typically, an unsuccessful bidder will receive a letter from the contracting body notifying them that they have not won the tender, what their scores were and what the scores of the successful bidder(s) were.

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  • Public Procurement
  • 04 March 2020

Essential Developments – Public Procurement Webinar

As Brexit begins to make an impact on the public procurement sector and further legal developments expected over the coming year, it has never been a more important time to understand the law on challenging procurement awards.
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  • Construction
  • 06 February 2020

All about Alliancing – why, what, where?

Regular readers will know that we’ve written about collaboration before, but how can it be achieved? What options are out there for contractually encouraging and allowing collaboration? One option often cited, but not so often adopted is alliancing.

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  • Employment
  • 04 February 2020

Manchester’s Good Employment Charter

Last week, over 60 businesses in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority volunteered to refrain from using zero-hours contracts by signing up to the Good Employment Charter.
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  • Public Procurement
  • 07 June 2019

Does abandoning a tender defeat a bidder’s claim?

Under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, bidders who are successful in establishing that a public body has breached its duties in the running of a regulated tender are entitled to recover damages. Other remedies may also be available, depending on whether a contract has been entered into or not by the public body.
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  • Public Procurement
  • 27 November 2018

Public procurement and development agreements

The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment in the case of R (Faraday) v West Berkshire Council EWCA Civ 2532, which has important consequences for local authorities and developers entering into development agreements.

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