# Awarding Public Contracts Skilfully and Lawfully within the Procurement Rules

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 of the Thorniest Legal Challenges facing Experienced Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight Policy Makers, Lawyers and Industry Experts

- Format: On-demand
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £165.00 + VAT per person; On-Demand Team £259.00 + VAT per team
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/proc23

## Programme

- Agile Contracts: How do you leverage the available flexibilities in the new regs and so put in place the maximum lawful contract agility?
  - Answered by Edward Quigg, Quigg Golden
- Variations: Is there a creative way of rescuing the situation if the contract value reaches and exceeds the threshold award notice, and you need to vary?
  - Answered by Michael Mousdale, Browne Jacobson
- Social Value: How do you include and measure social value in tenders and contracts and ensure that bidder responses become a qualitative commitment?
  - Answered by Emily Heard, Bevan Brittan
- Evaluation: Where are the limits to evaluators changing their initial views on moderation or in response to clarifications and presentations?
  - Answered by Rupert Sydenham, Hogan Lovells
- Bunching: How do you control - and overcome - the difficulties of bunching and marginal score differentiation and decrease the likelihood of a challenge?
  - Answered by Brendan McGurk, Monckton Chambers
- Feedback: In giving feedback to losing bidders, what (1) must you include and (2) should you hold back, on the relative advantages of the winning bid?
  - Answered by David Hansom, Clyde & Co
- New regs - practical application: What will you be able to do under the new regs that you can't do now backed up by practical examples?
  - Answered by Dr Totis Kotsonis, Pinsent Masons
- New regs - overview: What is the state of play with the incoming procurement regs and how do you prepare?
  - Answered by Edward Green OBE, the Cabinet Office

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