Practical guides
From the Regulations to practice, step by step.
Guides for the procurement teams of contracting authorities: what to do, in what order and on which regulation.
Who issues the call: the authority, the Directorate or the Director
How the estimated value and the Schedule a contracting authority is listed in decide who issues, administers and determines a call for tenders.
regulation 9(1)(a) · regulation 9(1)(b) · regulation 9(1)(c) · regulation 9(2)
Procurement below the threshold: quotations, direct contracts and departmental tenders
What Part III of the Public Procurement Regulations allows at each estimated value, where calls are published and what the authority must record.
regulation 100(1) · regulation 100(2) · regulation 101 · regulation 102(1)
Technical specifications: “or equivalent”, standards, labels and proof
How regulation 53 requires technical specifications to be written, when a make or a trade mark may be named, and what labels and certificates may be required.
regulation 53(1) · regulation 53(2) · regulation 53(4) · regulation 53(6)
Remedies: what a contracting authority must do when a call is challenged
The two remedies before the Public Contracts Review Board, their time limits and deposits, when the process is suspended, ineffectiveness and the Court of Appeal.
regulation 16(1)(h) · regulation 262(1) · regulation 262(2) · regulation 263(1)
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