Procedure: Tell me more

Fran Mussellwhite explores the principles behind the submission of supplementary information after the deadline for bid submissions ‘Negotiation between a contracting authority and a bidder during a procurement is prohibited and as a general rule, a bid cannot be amended after it has been submitted.’ A series of recent European cases have focused on the …
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Contracting: Is it a bird, is it a plane, no…

Richard Hough outlines recent judicial guidance on the clarification of tenders ‘To allow a late entry of a key part of the tender submission in order to provide clarification would in effect be a confidential negotiation with one bidder, and a breach of the contracting authority’s duty of equal treatment.’Clarification of tender submissions can be …
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