The High Court has ruled that the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Michael Gove, broke the law by giving a contract to a market research company, Public First, who are run by long-time associates of his.
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The Good Law Project (GLP) issued a judicial review of the Government’s decision to directly award a contract for the provision of focus
On 5 June 2021, the Government published Procurement Policy Note 06/21. This will require suppliers bidding for major government contracts to provide a Carbon Reduction Plan at the selection stage and commit to achieving Net Zero by 2050.
When do the provisions of PPN 06/21 apply?
The provisions of PPN 06/21 apply to procurements by Central Government Departments, their Executive
On 03 June 2021, the Government issued the National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS), and the associated Procurement Policy Note (PPN).
What does each document do?
The NPPS sets out priorities for public procurement from now until the end of 2024, and discusses how contracting authorities can incorporate these priorities into their day-to-day procurement activities.
Sharpe Pritchard’s Procurement Working Group has recently responded to the Government’s Green Paper Transforming Public Procurement, which outlines the Government’s proposals for reforming what it describes as the ‘outdated’ public procurement regime following the UK’s exit from the EU.
The proposals aim to remove the current process driven procedures and create a streamlined and flexible approach that contracting authorities
The coming together of these two elements in the procurement of public contracts under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR” ) was recently considered in Aquilla Heywood Ltd v. Local Pensions Partnership Administration Ltd [2021] EWHC 114. This decision is likely to remain relevant after the PCR rides into the sunset as the recently published Green Paper proposes
We are often asked to advise public housing bodies on the procurement of works and services for the repair and maintenance of their housing stock and, in particular, on the interplay between the procurement rules set out in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR”)[1] and the obligation to consult leaseholders[2] on the resultant service charges that the public
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