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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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The introduction of the new investment screening regime will mark a watershed moment for the UK Government’s powers to intervene in corporate transactions. DLA Piper’s podcast series Understanding the UK National Security & Investment Regime guides listeners though what is driving the new regime, how it will operate in practice and its particular impact on …
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The Government’s Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement, published in December 2020, promised a significant shakeup for government procurement. Certainly, industry and public bodies thought so. Together, they made over 600 written submissions to the Cabinet Office. (You can find DLA Piper’s consultation comments on the reforms here.) Since the end of the submission deadline in March 2021, there has been …
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The 2020 party conference season will perhaps be even more remarkable than last year’s. Twelve months ago, delegates took their seats against a backdrop of party infighting and prorogation. Fast forward one year and the conference halls are empty whilst Brexit may not even make it to the top of the agenda. This autumn, politicians …
DLA Piper’s Technology and Strategic Sourcing team recently completed a c. £275 m transformative networks and telephony deal for one of the UK’s largest financial institutions, which used an innovative negotiation method known as ‘applied game theory’ in order to carry out the final negotiation stage of the procurement process. The resultant outcome was a …
As we noted in our first article, on 17 June 2020 Mr Justice Stuart-Smith handed down judgment in the 2019 Rail Franchising Litigation, one of the largest and most complex procurement and commercial judicial review claims litigated to date in the UK. DLA Piper acted for the Secretary of State for Transport (the “SoS”) and …
The Government has published the Employment Rights Act 1996 (Coronavirus, Calculation of a Week’s Pay) Regulations 2020 which come into force on 31 July. The Regulations ensure that employees who have been furloughed receive statutory redundancy pay, statutory notice pay, unfair dismissal compensation and certain other statutory payments based on their normal wages, rather than …
The Government has today (31 July 2020) published a policy paper setting out more detailed guidance on the Job Retention Bonus announced as part of the ‘Plan for Jobs’ on 8 July. The Job Retention Bonus is intended to provide additional support to employers who keep on their furloughed employees after the Coronavirus Job Retention …
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