Latest blogs on procurement law

Easycoach brought an action alleging that the contract selection criteria lacked objectivity and transparency and that in fact the two successful bidders did not satisfy the selection criteria.

The new Act requires that before starting any procurement process under the procurement Regulations for a services contract (including a services contract incorporating purchase of goods) the contracting authority must consider...

Hot on the heels of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, the National Prescribing Centre (NPC), now part of NICE, has published a Local Decision-Making (LDM) Competency Framework commissioned by the DH to support 'groups' (in reality CCGs in their current shadow form) involved in making local decisions about the funding of medicines and treatments in the NHS.