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Webinar 2 – 4 October 2022 – Q&A Can you expand on the ability to change to process in the flexible competitive procedure? Step 16. Clause 31 of the Procurement Bill allows contracting authorities to modify the terms of the procurement. The contracting authority may make unrestricted changes to the procurement before the deadline for: …
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It has been nearly six months after the passage of the Subsidy Control Act in April 2022 (the “Act”) and nearly two years after the UK government committed to creating a Subsidy Control regime in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU. As the regime coalesces around the guidance, procedure and bodies which will …
It is now close to two years since the Government published its green paper to transform public procurement and the headline commitments to make procurement more flexible, streamlined and innovative have now been translated into the detail of the Procurement Bill 2022-23. As we move closer towards the Bill’s planned royal assent in 2023, we …
In previous blogs (see here), we provided an overview of the Procurement Bill (the “Bill“) and the extent to which it will change the public procurement regime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In this blog, we consider the provisions of the Bill relating to delegated powers. This may seem like an esoteric subject of …
Civil penalties, a reduction of the contract length and an award of damages to the claimant. These remedies send a clear message; all contracting authorities should abide by the laws and principles set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCRs), otherwise they run the risk of sizeable financial consequences. In this blog, we delve …
Webinar 1 – 27th June 2022 – Q&A Response to questions and comments raised. What are the long-term implications of the current apparent omission of ‘labour’ considerations (e.g. as per current EU) under the ‘Public Good’ principle?’ In today’s ever increasingly ‘tense’ UK employment relations position with current strike actions, are not the Trade Unions …
The Process of Challenges under the Procurement Bill – Summary of our view The choice not to progress the full range of potential reforms set out in the Green Paper could be argued to be a lost opportunity. The Green Paper proposals in respect of challenges were designed to reduce delay and encourage more claims …
Procurement Challenges – A new regime but not a revolution Read More »
Nearly a month has passed since the government introduced the Procurement Bill 2022-23 to Parliament. The Bill has been heralded as an opportunity to take advantage of the newly found freedoms afforded by Brexit. And – with an annual UK spend of around £300 billion – the prize of making public procurement more streamlined, flexible …
Same as it ever was? Has the Procurement Bill seized a once in a lifetime opportunity? Read More »
In this blog we look in more detail at the proposals for reforms to transparency notices in the Procurement Bill following on from the Government’s Green Paper (Transforming public procurement). The principles of transparency have long been embedded within the public procurement regime, however the importance of contracting authorities complying with these obligations have been …
On 10 May 2022, Prince Charles opened Parliament and delivered the Queen’s Speech, in the first time that the Queen has not delivered the address since 1963. You can read more of the blog written by Paul Hardy and Daniel Jones here.
Procurement Bill The Procurement Bill (announced in the Queen’s Speech) was formally introduced to the House of Lords on 11th May 2022 via the 1st reading stage with a 2nd reading, when members of the House of Lords will debate its key principles being timetabled for 25th May 2022. This Bill is viewed a high …
Public Procurement Reform – Procurement Bill updates Read More »
In this blog we look in more detail at the proposals for a debarment list, centrally maintained by the Cabinet Office. This blog does not consider the related topic of grounds for exclusion, which themselves will be streamlined and modernised from the current regime under Regulation 57 PCR: this is a topic in its own …
Debarment from UK Government contracts – back to the future Read More »
The Cabinet Office in conjunction with the Government Legal Department (GLD) has recently launched the new version 2.0 of the Model Contract (formerly the Model Agreement) to capture key changes in the market, legislative updates, changes in policy and learnings of government entities informing best practice. The Model Contract is the government’s long form agreement …
Model Contract: newly launched terms now “live” for usage Read More »
The Cabinet Office recently published a new Digital, Data and Technology (“DDaT”) Playbook, and accompanying guidance on Mitigating and Preventing Legacy IT. The Playbook provides guidance on how HMG should assess, procure and deliver DDaT projects, and largely follows the same structure and approach as the Cabinet Office’s Sourcing and Consultancy Paybooks. Usefully, the Paybook …
On 6 December 2021, the Cabinet Office published the Government’s response to its consultation on the 2020 green paper, “Transforming Public Procurement”. In this post we provide answers to frequently asked questions based on the information provided by the Cabinet Office to date. This blog forms part of a wider series on the Government’s procurement …
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