Tendering: The price is right?

Trowers & Hamlins LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | January/February 2016 #28
Rebecca Rees reviews the evaluation of tender pricing ‘It is suggested that contracting authorities reconsider the overall evaluation methodology, rather than try and mitigate the risk of abnormally low or suicidal bids through altering the overall price/quality split.’Contracting authorities procuring in the economic downturn have been poorly served by traditional approaches to evaluating price. The …

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Tendering: Train of (Virgin) thought

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | November/December 2012 #9
Peter Jansen reviews the remedies arising from errors in tender assessments EU Directive 2004/18/EC requires authorities in awarding contracts to ‘treat economic operators equally and non-discriminatorily and shall act in a transparent way’. This is enacted in English law by reg 4(1) of The Public Contracts Regulations 2006.The recent threat of judicial review on the …

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Practice: The long arm of the (common) law

Eversheds Sutherland | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | November/December 2012 #9
John Bennett contemplates the extent to which the common law can regulate the tendering process The recent case law has, if anything, added more confusion to the implied contract argument rather than determining those circumstances where it will apply and the precise scope of the doctrine.This article outlines the development of UK common law rules …

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