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Sharpe Pritchard Shortlisted for Legal Advisor of the Year at the Prestigious Partnership Awards 2024

Partners and associates at Sharpe Pritchard, a leader in public sector law, are celebrating its most recent shortlisting for Legal Advisor of the Year at the Partnership Awards 2024.

Recognised as the industry’s most significant celebration of excellence in the public-private partnership (PPP) space, the Partnership Awards spotlight those who leverage partnerships to achieve extraordinary success stories.

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Where Do We Stand?

A Round-Up Insight Into An Economic Operator’s Right to Bring A Procurement Challenge.

The basic relevant points under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR”) are that;

Under PCR Regulation 18, Contracting Authorities owe duties to Economic Operators;

In summary PCR Regulation 2 defines Economic Operators as any person etc which offers the execution of works or the provision of services

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Can a Local Authority go “bankrupt” and what is a Section 114 Notice?

On 5 September 2023 Birmingham City Council – “Birmingham” – issued a Section 114 Notice under the Local Government Act 1988 (the Act). The decision to issue that notice was prompted by an anticipated budgetary deficit of around £87m between income and expenditure for the 2023/24 financial year and a recognition that Birmingham could not balance its budget in the

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Local authorities on track to more freedom to cut ties with Russian and Belarusian suppliers

Updated on [ 04.07.2022 ] July 2022

On 30 June, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities made the Local Government (Exclusion of Non-commercial Considerations) (England) Order 2022 No. 741 (“Order”), amending the constraints of section 17 of the Local Government Act 1988 (“LGA 1988”) such that local authorities described in the LGA

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Reservations Required: Procurement Policy Note (“PPN”) 11/20

The concept of reservations was one we all became familiar with in 2020 (at a time before lockdown 3.0 was upon us and we were able to visit restaurants and pubs albeit with regimented seating times), but procurement professionals are going to have to get used to reservations in an entirely different context in 2021 as a result of PPN

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Standing to bring a Procurement Challenge

In a trial of two preliminary issues in Community R4C Ltd -v- Gloucestershire County Council [2020] EWHC 1803 (TCC) the Court held that a consortium was not an Economic Operator under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015).  Even if it was, in a hypothetical tender the consortium would not have had the financial standing to pass a hypothetical PQQ

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