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The Cabinet Office has published a Procurement Policy Note (09/15) on the requirements for contracting authorities to assist with procurement investigations – specifically the Mystery Shopper scheme. Previously, compliance by contracting authorities with this investigation process (instigated by SMEs who felt a tender exercise had not been undertaken fairly or had been unbalanced in favour of larger companies) was optional.
On 26 May 2015, section 40 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 came into force, making contracting authorities’ assistance with any such investigation compulsory. Investigations can be into the procurement process or contract management. Contracting authorities may be issued with a notice under section 40 requiring provision of documents and information; if they fail to respond they will be in breach of their statutory duty.
This gives more ‘teeth’ to central government’s powers to intervene in local government procurement and seems contrary to the model of decentralisation that the government is ostensibly working towards.
In the latest of the ongoing equal pay controversies within the BBC, the Employment Tribunal has handed down its judgment in Samira Ahmed case in a decision expected to cost the BBC in the region of £700,000 in back pay.
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Following an MP debate on 5 November 2019, the government is due to release long-awaited guidance as to how it intends to protect workers in the retail industry against violence, harassment and abuse.
On 14 January 2019 a Capped Costs Pilot Scheme was introduced in the Leeds and Manchester Business and Property Courts, and has been set to run for two years.
Professor Ewart has succeeded in his age discrimination claim against Oxford University after reaching its compulsory retirement age of 68.
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