Public sector – procurement compliance
We provide practical advice and guidance on:
- structuring the process and procedure to comply with the procurement regulations, ensuring evaluation criteria and scoring methodologies are appropriate and how to conduct ‘competitive dialogue’ negotiations and framework agreements
- balancing the need for bids to be competitive (and maximising the procuring organisation’s negotiating position) whilst transferring the appropriate degree of risk to the supplier/service provider
- formulating and finalising PQQ and ITT documentation, requirements specifications and other commercial schedules
- how to ensure fair and equal treatment of bidders and minimise the scope for procurement challenges, particularly considering requests for post-bid contract negotiations
- ‘standstill’ and bidder debriefing obligations
- scope variations to contracts mid-term and possible changes to the identity of prime and sub-contractors to ensure compliance with any re-procurement obligations
- minimising the exposure for public sector organisations to challenges to contract awards and the risk of fines and contracts being declared ‘ineffective’ whilst ensuring procurements can be run in a manageable and sensible way to secure greatest value for the public sector
- procurement issues and suitable contractual arrangements relating to consortium agreements
“Thanks for providing us with a very good service and expert pragmatic advice.”
Head of Procurement, Government department
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