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UK government guidance to prevent localised boycotts of international bidders

Central government has moved to clamp down on public sector bodies refusing to procure from certain countries on political grounds (Town-Hall Boycotts).
19 February 2016

Government response: EU Utilities and Concessions Directives Consultation & Implementation

The Cabinet Office has published its response to the consultations on the draft Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 and Concessions Contracts Regulations 2016 which were published last summer.
05 February 2016

Publication

High Court hears first case considering NHS Procurement Regulations

The High Court has upheld the decision of NHS England not to award an interim contract for the provision of gamma knife treatment services to an independent provider.
02 February 2016

Erroneous procurement procedure: OHIM compensate European Dynamics for opportunity loss

European Dynamics will be awarded compensation after OHIM applied more weight to certain scoring sub-criteria than it had advertised it would.
23 October 2015

Widespread errors in European procurement should lead to EU funds being withheld

There were errors in 40 per cent of the public procurement processes used to distribute EU budget funds in 2007-2014.
24 September 2015

Publication

Cabinet Office Guidance: "Public/Public" Contracts

The Cabinet Office has published guidance concerning contracts between two public bodies, restating parts of Teckal and Hamburg and referring to new provisions in Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
09 September 2015

Publication

Cabinet Office Consultations: Transposition of Concessions and Utilities Directive

The Cabinet Office has published consultations concerning the UK transposition of the new Concessions Directive and the revised Utilities Directive with draft Regulations coming by April 2016.
26 August 2015

Publication

Quaystone Newsletter - September 2015

This construction and engineering newsletter looks at employment and social issues including managing TUPE risks and a recent European case which considers the treatment of employees’ travel time.
24 August 2015

Publication

Edenred v HM Treasury: Supreme Court guidance on material change in procurement contracts

The Supreme Court delivered its judgment in Edenred v HM Treasury and others [2015 UKSC 45] where Edenred challenged HM Treasury's decision to enter into arrangements changing a public contract.
04 August 2015

Publication

Medicure fails in locum doctor framework challenge

Some useful guidance on challenges to call-off contracts under a Framework Agreement has been given by Mr Justice Coulson in Medicure Ltd v The Minister for the Cabinet Office.
23 July 2015

Publication

Public Procurement Mystery Shopper Scheme; a new statutory obligation to comply

The Mystery Shopper Scheme is an alternative for suppliers to bring a complaint about poor procurement practice. We explain how the law affords greater enforcement powers to the Mystery Shopper Scheme.
08 June 2015

Publication

Moseley revisited: Public Consultation may not need to set out alternative options

We look at R (Angharad Morris and Donna Thomas) v Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council which considers the scope of Moseley in the duty to give information on alternative options in consultations.
03 June 2015

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