Our solicitors advise the public sector on a full range of commercial transactions from routine procurements for goods and services and outsourcing to major, complex, high value and innovative PPP projects.
We provide expert support for contract formation, drafting and negotiation. We also advise on strategy, risk transfer and bidder analysis. Our team of commercial contract lawyers are pragmatic and commercially minded.
We have experience of carrying out all contract formation work across the public sector. This allows us to invest time in setting up integrated systems with the client to ensure their internal reporting and contracting codes are followed as a matter of course.
Our experts advise on commercial strategies, negotiating positions, tactics and techniques and provide training courses for both lay and legal clients on general contracts updates, application of procurement and subsidy control (where relevant), commercial strategies, negotiating positions, tactics and techniques.
We are on the Government Legal Services Panel and Wider Public Sector Panel and a number of other approved panels including EM Lawshare and LBLA.
28 May 2024
Allan Owen and Beth Edwards provide a summary of the High Court’s recent Judgement in Tata Consultancy Services Ltd v Disclosure and Barring Service which provides useful guidance on limits of liability.[1] Facts The Disclosure and Barring Service (“DBS”) entered into a contract with Tata Consultancy Services Limited (“TCS”) for both the operation of “business…
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On 19 September 2023, Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, announced in Parliament that he was satisfied that Birmingham City Council was failing to comply with its ‘best value duty’ in accordance with the Local Government Act 1999. This came as a result of the severe financial issues raised…
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