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In a mini-competition run by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the invitation to submit mini-tenders told framework suppliers...

Technical specifications seem to be featuring in the European case law at the moment. In an earlier blog I discussed a case on sewage...

A case on Belgian sewage pipes may not be of immediate interest to UK procurement practitioners. Let me tell you why it's important....

One would have thought that with a new Government, 45 pages of Regulations and amendments to the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 23) and related...

The Crown Commercial Service has replaced Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 3/23 with a new PPN and new Standard Selection Questionnaire...

I have just read the case of OCS Group UK Limited v Community Health Partnerships Limited. It concerned an application for the disclosure...

The Cabinet Office has advised that the planned implementation date for the new procurement regime is now October 2024. The third reading...

The James Waste case* concerned whether a temporary change to a waste contract was permitted under Regulation 72 of the Public Contracts...

The signing of free trade agreements with Australia and New Zealand has led to the need for the Government to make a few changes to the...

As a result of Brexit, we have lost right to use VAT-exclusive values in the public procurement rules. The Government has finally passed...

An important new case has raised doubts as to whether it is legitimate to average evaluators' scores. In Bromcom Computers v United...

First, it was Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 11/20 on reserving below threshold contracts for local suppliers and now it is PPN 1/22 on...