- Intermediate/Introductory * 5 hours CPD
This course provides a comprehensive overview of how the EU public procurement rules apply to Local Authority tendering activities and summarises other legal and strategic aspects of handling tendering effectively. It is also applicable to other public sector bodies.
- Procurement in a Local Authority Context
- The importance of tendering in HM Government's modernisation agenda
- The legal framework: statutory powers and duties
- Current hot topics for local authority procurement: shared services, regeneration, use of competitive dialogue
- Which Procurements are Caught by the EU Rules?
- Application of the General Treaty Principles
- Negotiated procedure without advert
- "In-house" awards
- Application of the EU rules
- Problems of land-owning developers
- s106 agreements
- Particular Procurement Tools
- Central purchasing bodies
- Framework agreements
- Using dynamic purchasing systems
- Choice of Award Procedures
- Availability of different procedures - open, restricted and negotiated
- Competitive dialogue: the theory and practice
- Practical Issues on Advertising & Shortlisting
- Do's and don'ts of OJEU adverts
- Numbers to be invited to tender
- Rules on shortlisting
- Issues on ITT & Evaluation
- Technical specifications
- Drafting award criteria and their relative weighting
- Variant bids
- Provision of Information and Challenges
- Alcatel and related Freedom of Information issues
- Current climate for challenges
- Changes afoot: the new EU remedies regime