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This month sees two apparently conflicting cases on how a contracting authority should deal with a mistake made by a provider when submitting their tender. The ECJ has also confirmed the application of the EU principle of transparency to service concession contracts.

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In our final post of the year on the key developments in public procurement policy that lawyers should be aware of the focus is on the reforms to the public procurement regime, which were due to be adopted in early December 2013.  This post does not consider case law, which is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public procurement case digest – October 2013.

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Practical Law Public Sector reports:

The headlines in October were dominated by a dispute between Covanta Energy Ltd and Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority which has led to an injunction being granted at the end of a seven-year procurement process and also the court considering an application for early disclosure.

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