27 Mar, 2024 Procurement Act 2023 guidance - the revelation commences... By Mark Cook Helpful guidance is now beginning to emerge from the Cabinet Office, ‘covering subjects from transitional arrangements and covered...
19 Feb, 2024 Brace yourselves: The bar has been raised for recovering damages in public procurement claims By Amy Callahan-Page In a successful procurement claim, one of the forms of relief commonly sought is the recovery of damages. Where the automatic suspension...
10 Mar, 2023 An early April Fools? No, just a new standard selection questionnaire By Gayle Monk It will be live from 1 April 2023 but it's no joke - the Cabinet Office has published a new standard selection questionnaire (SQ). From...
09 Dec, 2022 It's coal for Christmas By Gayle Monk Just a month after relinquishing the COP presidency, the UK has taken the perverse decision to approve the opening of the country's first...
29 Sep, 2022 Wave 2.1 of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund - it's time to apply By Gayle Monk Inevitably the turmoil of the last two months has delayed many things, among them the opening up of Wave 2 of the Social Housing...
29 Apr, 2022 Update on public procurement reform – moving away from digital gold plating? By Steven Brunning It has been nearly six months since the Cabinet Office issued its response to the Green Paper: Transforming public procurement...
07 Dec, 2021 Government response to public procurement consultation By Amy Callahan-Page Yesterday the Cabinet Office published its response to a consultation on proposals for reform to public procurement law as detailed in...
25 Aug, 2021 Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund - Wave 1 is now live By Gayle Monk Following a small number of pilots launched earlier in the year, the government opened up applications for Wave 1 of the wider funding...
10 Aug, 2021 Urgent health and safety repairs? Academies told to use reserves By Anthony Collins The Department for Education has recently published revised guidance on the availability of Urgent Capital Support (accessible here) when...
01 Jul, 2021 The Subsidy Control Bill: Freeing up public funding or just more red tape? By Anthony Collins With Brexit we were promised an end to Brussels red tape and in few areas, this was more apparent (and arguably needed!) than State aid....
30 Jun, 2021 New Subsidy Control Bill By Anthony Collins Exciting times for State aid/subsidies lawyers! Very much looking forward to reading this with a coffee when it's published (no, I'm not...
26 May, 2021 Housing Technology: New software module equals new procurement? By Andrew Millross Alex Lawrence Click here to read the latest edition of Housing Technology featuring our article where we look at public procurement issues through the...