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This is the second of our series of quarterly housing law update blogs, which will enable readers specialising in housing law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments. This post looks at housing law developments from March 2013 to May 2013.
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12/06/2013
Public procurement case digest (May 2013)
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Following a quiet month, our May 2013 case digest reviews a case on the application of the Treaty principles to specific procurement requirements and takes a look back at the year to date.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or contact us at: feedback@practicallaw.com if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners.
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Warsha Kalé, Associate Director, and Stuart Stock, Associate, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP:
This post highlights some of the public procurement compliance issues arising out of the new Cabinet Office guidance “Procurement for growth: a recipe for success”, which was published on 21 May 2013.
The guidance clearly states that, as part of the efficiency drive in public sector procurement, engagement with the private sector in the early stages of a tender process “gives maximum opportunity for success”.
David Hunter, consultant, Bates Wells & Braithwaite LLP:
The purpose behind social impact bonds, in many ways, is to try something different.
Whilst this is primarily about the difference in the what (that is, the commissioning of outcomes, rather than a service), a new approach to the how is also integral to the prospect of success.
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The government’s 2011 public services White Paper, Opening Public Services, advocated a greater role for the service user in choosing and controlling the way that they receive public services. This built on policies introduced by the previous government (for example, relating to direct payments). The momentum behind the approach has continued to grow throughout the term of the current government, culminating most recently in the government commissioning an independent review by David Boyle into the barriers to choice in public services. The report findings were published in January 2013.
Choice and control seem set to remain central to government policy through to the next election, with May 2013 seeing the:
- Government reinforcing this message in its latest update on the White Paper.
- Welcoming of David Boyle’s findings in the government’s initial response to his review.
- Publication of a new “Choice Charter“.
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