POSTED BY KEVIN CALDER | 30 NOVEMBER 2011 This season's colour is green The EU has issued some helpful (if lengthy) guidance called Buying Green - a handbook explaining how to introduce environmental factors into the procurement process. Read more Share this article procedures
25 NOVEMBER 2011 The NHS Operating Framework for 2012/13 The Operating Framework for 2012/13 was published by the Department of Health yesterday and contains further details of planned progress for the NHS reforms over the final transitional year (subject of course to passage of the Bill). Share this article
POSTED BY KEVIN CALDER | 22 NOVEMBER 2011 Students Loan Company funding - is the procurement regime about to change for universities? Procurement professionals in universities were excited to read the following in a recent Department of Business Innovation and Skills White Paper (Students at the heart of the system) presented in June by David Willetts Minister for Universities and Science... Share this article
17 NOVEMBER 2011 Commissioners told they must not impose minimum waiting times or restrict patient choice On Monday, the Department of Health confirmed that commissioners of NHS funded services must not impose minimum waiting times for treatments, or restrict patient choice for routine elective care. Share this article
POSTED BY KEVIN CALDER | 15 NOVEMBER 2011 Demystifying Teckal Those procurement practitioners who have had to consider whether a contract is exempt from competition under the Regulations on the basis that it is an in house contract will know that the rules in this area have been - at best - somewhat opaque. Share this article
POSTED BY KEVIN CALDER | 14 NOVEMBER 2011 All White Now Those attending the annual White Paper Conference on procurement law last week were treated to an insight from leading commentators into the likely future direction of procurement law. Predictions of future developments included... Share this article
POSTED BY HELEN PRANDY | 8 NOVEMBER 2011 Judicial review in public procurement...again In 2010 Mrs Hossack, the sole principal of a firm of solicitors which has its only office in Northamptonshire submitted a tender to the Legal Services Commission (LSC) for a contract to provide publicly funded services in social welfare law from 14 October 2010. Share this article
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