Regulation: Feeling your way

Charles Russell Speechlys LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | July/August 2015 #25
Rory Ashmore assesses the impact of the new light touch regime ‘Light touch regime contracts will benefit from far greater flexibility than those whose procurement is fully regulated under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.’On 9 March 2015, the Cabinet and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) issued guidance on a new ‘light touch regime’ (LTR) for the …

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Regulation: Calling a halt

MacRoberts LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | March/April 2015 #23
Julie Hamilton investigates challenges under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2012 ‘This is the latest in what is now a significant number of Scottish cases which have affirmed the difficulty a challenging bidder faces in convincing a court to maintain a suspension preventing a contracting authority from entering into a contract following a procurement challenge.’Under …

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Regulation: Wishing well

Weightmans LLP | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | November/December 2013 #15
Martin Vincent examines exemption from the Public Contracts Regulations To benefit from the Teckal exception, a contracting authority must control the contractor to a degree that is similar to that which it exercises over its own departments.’There is seemingly a lot of confusion out there regarding contracts between contracting authorities and whether they are exempt …

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