Latest blogs on procurement law

The First-Tier Tribunal on an appeal against the Information Commissioner's decision not to allow disclosure of a successful bid in a procurement process for the delivery of a 'Leisure Management System'.

The Publications Office of the EU ran tenders for several computing services frameworks, using a cascade system to select winners.

Those who really know their stuff will also be aware that Regulation 72 of the PCR 2015 now sets out when amendments to existing public contracts may be made without needing a completely new procurement process.

Where more students are recruited this will probably increase the proportion of funds a university receives via tuition fees. This effect may well be amplified by the fact that the government funding allocation to English universities for teaching for the years 2014/15 and 2015/16 is falling with the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HECFE) commenting that the reductions extend more widely than merely those accounted for by the switch to funding via tuition fees.

It is not only school teachers who are busy writing pages of reports at this time of year; contracting authorities need to do so too, thanks to Action Note 10/15 which has recently been issued by the Crown Commercial Service.

Generally speaking, it is an absolute requirement of Regulation 53 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015) to provide electronic access from the date of the OJEU notice.

The Act is wide-ranging in scope but two particular sections are important from a public procurement perspective.

The Regulations introduce new mandatory contractual terms that must be included in general medical service (GMS) contracts and personal medical services (PMS) agreements made between NHS England and GMS or PMS contractors (contractors).