11/21/2025 9:38:50 AM PFI Fridays #6 - Breaking up is hard to do (but it doesn’t have to be): The PFI exit clause edition By Rumandeep Dhariwal Alex Lawrence PFI contracts have underpinned the delivery of many schools, hospitals, and other public infrastructure during the first quarter of the...
10/10/2025 8:50:31 AM PFI Fridays #4 - Mediation is by far the better way By Andrew Lancaster As a mediator, I’ve been resolving disputes for CEDR and many others for over 20 years. And here at Anthony Collins, we’ve seen the power...
4/14/2025 11:28:06 AM Compliant tenders - 'discount' is ambiguous By Andrew Millross In a mini-competition run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the invitation to submit mini-tenders told framework suppliers...
4/8/2025 9:53:15 AM UnpACking Procurement - Unwrapping package deals By Richard Brooks Social Housing Development and the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23) What package? Where a developer offers to sell land, but only if it builds...
4/7/2025 12:08:10 PM From Beligian sewers to Bulgarian kerbstones By Andrew Millross Technical specifications seem to be featuring in the European case law at the moment. In an earlier blog I discussed a case on sewage...
3/28/2025 3:39:55 PM Welcome to ACsess Risk! By Elizabeth Massey Lorna Kenyon-Pain We are delighted to announce our new webinar series ACsess Risk, starting 1 April 2025. What is the aim of ACsess Risk? This series is...
2/13/2025 6:23:27 PM Where there's muck there's...plastic - or equivalent By Andrew Millross A case on Belgian sewage pipes may not be of immediate interest to UK procurement practitioners. Let me tell you why it's important....
2/7/2025 2:45:48 PM Procurement UnpACked: Open procedure – Open sesame By Priya Kale Alex Lawrence For any procurement falling under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 23) there are only two competitive tendering procedures – the open...
2/6/2025 5:11:29 PM 'Restrict' your panic when using the competitive flexible procedure… By Richard Brooks Sophie McFie-Hyland From 24 February, procurement law changes, so you have to use the 'open' procedure or the ‘competitive flexible' procedure when running...
11/20/2024 2:19:26 PM JCT Measured Term Contract 2024 – what’s new? By Naomi Dowthwaite The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has now published the Measured Term Contract 2024 (MTC 2024). This follows updates to many other...
5/8/2024 12:08:36 PM JCT DB 2024 - what’s new and how will it affect my existing contract forms? By Naomi Dowthwaite The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has now published its first contracts in the 2024 suite: the Design and Build Contract 2024 (DB 2024)...
4/10/2024 2:47:32 PM PPN 03/24 withdraws use of PAS 91 and updates SQ By Andrew Millross The Crown Commercial Service has replaced Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 3/23 with a new PPN and new Standard Selection Questionnaire...