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6 November 2023
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…
Read more19 September 2023
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…
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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 1988…
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