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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…

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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…

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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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