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Browne Jacobson can help you navigate through the UK public procurement rules

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Cabinet Office and Downing Street London

Everything you need to know on the Public Contracts Regulations 2015

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Government sector procurement is highly regulated and process driven. To avoid costly and time consuming legal challenges, access to expert advice is vital to government sector organisations. To ensure that competitors are not given unfair advantages, businesses competing for work from the government sector need experienced lawyers. From initial advertising to handling requests for information, our specialist team understands your environment and will work with you to provide pragmatic legal advice throughout the process.

what we do...

Our clients - Local Enterprise Partnerships, NHS Trusts, business enterprise organisations, local authorities, private sector companies engaged in procurements or otherwise seeking to challenge decisions to award contracts to competitors.
Our experience - advising both the public sector (social care, education, health, government bodies, local authorities, public/private partnerships) and the private sector (from listed plcs to SMEs trying to work with local authorities for the first time). We regularly act for a number of national central procurement bodies.

One of the largest specialist procurement teams in the Midlands, acting for clients nationwide.
Specialist advice - on all aspects of the public procurement regime pursuant to the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 and 2015, as well as the underlying EU directives.
We have developed innovative solutions to public to public cooperation and other types of shared service arrangements.

related resources

Brexit resources

Procurement law reforms

One area of reform around which we would like to develop some discussion is the remedies regime.

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Legal updates

PPN 04/20 - recovery and transition from Covid-19

PPN 04/20 has been issued in the likelihood that the pandemic will cause continued disruption for the foreseeable future - what does this mean for contracting authorities?

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Covid-19 for Local Authorities, Arms Length Bodies and Government - 16th June 2020

Take a look at our Covid-19 on-demand training video, where key members of the team will be providing an update on current issues arising in relation to the pandemic including health and safety and how to get procurement going again.

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Legal updates

Procurement Policy Note 02/20 - Supplier Relief due to Covid-19 in a school setting

Procurement Policy Note 02/20 (PPN 02/20) is asking contracting authorities within England to play their part in keeping businesses up and running, by continuing to pay suppliers.

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what the directories say...

"They understand public services, wielding their expertise lightly and to great effect. They are a good firm to hire and are even better as a truly effective partner," reports a client.

A market source says: "They know what they are doing, turn things around quickly, give good, clear instructions and are easy to work with."

Chambers 2020

A client says: "I have a good working relationship with the team and they have excellent commercial acumen."

Chambers 2019

A client says: 'The team is client-centric, proactive and practical, and our organisation has benefited and grown as a result of instructing them.'

Chamber 2018

A client says: 'They are supremely professional and absolutely reliable.'

Chamber 2018

They addressed the issues at the early stages. They provide clear and useful advice. They have a very good team. All the individuals are experts in their area and they can rely on a wider team.

Chambers 2016

They displayed a commercial and thorough approach with a strong eye for detail and good client-handling skills in a difficult case.

Chambers 2016

recent experience

Advising a central government department on its ongoing procurement of a replacement ICT strategy. This has included drafting of procurement documentation, advising on whether amendments to a call-off contract under a framework were compliant, advising on the management of the procurement process, in particular evaluating and responding to a large number of clarification questions.
Advised on the transfer of commercial contracts between government departments. This involved conducting due diligence and advising on the potential options open, which concluded with the transferring of a number of contracts under a statutory transfer scheme and entering into shared services arrangements between departments. The advice included the procurement implications of transferring contracts and how to mitigate risks associated with this.
Advising a group of local authorities on establishing a Teckal company and trading company to run a public service in tandem - including advising on the possible structures of a shared services, the procurement and other commercial risks of different delivery models and how these can be mitigated and also drafting documents for Members on complex legal matters in a clear, comprehensive and concise format.
Advised on the procurement of a private sector partner to establish a corporate joint venture for the delivery of schools catering within a London borough. We provided advice on procurement, state aid and pensions together with contractual and corporate structures - delivering one of the first corporate joint ventures of its type and sector in the country in a very short time frame.