Andrew Millross

The European Court has upheld the long-standing principle that parties to a dispute should be able to choose their lawyers without having to go through a tender process (or use a framework).

“Frustration” enables a party to get out of a contract where new circumstances make performance of that contract impossible or illegal.

The Government has now published its “no deal notice” for public procurement.

Housing providers hoping to escape the EU procurement rules should note that this is unlikely pre-Brexit.

Whilst women make up 13% of the construction workforce, only 1% of manual trade workers are women.

Once again it’s time for “rebasing” of the EU public procurement thresholds to the euro figures in the EU Procurement Directive. This happens every two years, and this time the thresholds have gone up.

The GPA is a free trade agreement promoted by the World Trade Organisation (“WTO”) that regulates “public procurement”.

You can read the paper here. It is drafted on the basis of a “no deal” approach and assumes no access to European procurement markets for UK contractors.

The contract in question is the NHF (National Housing Federation) Schedule of Rates Form of Contract 2011, which we, at Anthony Collins Solicitors, comprehensively revised and updated for Rand/M3 in 2011, and still keep up-to-date for them.