10 Apr, 2024 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...
16 May, 2023 Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreement drives changes to the public procurement rules By Andrew Millross 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...
30 Jan, 2023 When to advertise on Contracts Finder By Andrew Millross As a result of Brexit, we have lost right to use VAT-exclusive values in the public procurement rules. The Government has finally passed...
30 Jan, 2023 Judge outlaws averaging evaluators' scores By Andrew Millross An important new case has raised doubts as to whether it is legitimate to average evaluators' scores. In Bromcom Computers v United...
04 Apr, 2022 PPNs demonstrate the need for section 17 LGA 88 to be repealed By Andrew Millross First, it was Procurement Policy Note (PPN) 11/20 on reserving below threshold contracts for local suppliers and now it is PPN 1/22 on...
26 Jan, 2022 Building Safety Bill - implications for maintenance By Andrew Millross I was talking about the Building Safety Bill proposals at the NHMF conference yesterday, alongside my colleague Lorna Kenyon-Pain from...
02 Dec, 2021 More new transparency requirements - nothing to worry about By Andrew Millross Procurement practitioners may be alarmed to see yet another update to the transparency requirements in PPN (Procurement Policy Note)...
26 Oct, 2021 NHF Decarbonisation Guide Published By Andrew Millross Last week the National Housing Federation issued its decarbonisation guide. The guide includes an absolute zero target for scope 1...
23 Jul, 2021 Two important points from Triple Point - liquidated damages and contractual negligence By Andrew Millross The Supreme Court decision in the Triple Point case has clarified two legal principles that are important for construction and other...
21 Jul, 2021 PPN 7/17 - Cross border interest - but only in Northern Ireland By Andrew Millross In my recent post on Procurement Policy Note 7/17, I promised to report again once I had heard from the Cabinet Office. I was questioning...
25 May, 2021 Procurement Bill in the Queen's Speech By Andrew Millross For procurement practitioners, the prospect of a further wholesale revision of the public procurement rules (so soon after the last one...
02 Dec, 2020 Hello again FaTS By Andrew Millross We now know what the immediate future holds for public procurement at the end of the Brexit transitional period. In readiness for a...