Tendering Process in UK Law

  • A comparative study of formulas for choosing the economically most advantageous tender
    • No. 17-1, March 2017
    • Journal of Public Procurement
    • 89-125
    Choosing the best bid is a central step in any tendering process. If the award criterion is the economically most advantageous tender (EMAT), this involves scoring bids on price and quality and ran...
    ... ... Choosing the best bid is a central step in any tendering process. If the award criterion is the economically most advantageous t ... ...
  • From‐Long Term To Short‐Term Contracting
    • No. 79-1, March 2001
    • Public Administration
    One can look at the arrival of New Public Management and the extensive public sector reforms inspired by this theory from many angles. Here we examine the shift from long‐term contracting, typical ...
    ... ... public sector: (a) contracting with service providers after a tendering/bidding process; (b) contracting with the CEOs of the incorporated public ... ...
  • BUREAUCRATS AS PURCHASERS OF HEALTH SERVICES: LIMITATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR FOR CONTRACTING
    • No. 31-3, August 2011
    • Public Administration and Development
    Contracting out of health services increasingly involves a new role for governments as purchasers of services. To date, emphasis has been on contractual outcomes and the contracting process, which ...
    ... ... , emphasis has been on contractual outcomes and the contracting process , which may benefit from improvements in developing countries, has been ... were seen in three areas: (i) poor capacity for managing tendering; (ii) weak public sector governance resulting in slow processes, low ... ...
  • THE EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY: A CASE‐STUDY OF PUBLIC SECTOR CATERING
    • No. 10-2, February 1988
    • Employee Relations
    • 8-13
    The implications of government policy for public sector catering employees are considerable. Pay, conditions of service, hours of work, the effort‐bargain and staffing levels have all been altered ...
    ... ... Catering" [1], we outlined the early developments in competitive tendering for catering services in the NHS and the school meals service. The main ... have in fact occurred as a result of the competitive tendering process. Although involvement of catering companies in tendering for public ... ...
  • Do you want therapy with that? A critical account of working within IAPT
    • No. 20-2, June 2015
    • Mental Health Review Journal
    • 79-83
    Purpose: – The IAPT programme has been rolled out across England in the last ten years. Although undoubtedly many people have benefited from having greater access to psychological therapy there are...
    ... ... relianceon the medicalmodel andthe real world impact of tendering for servicesin the modern NHS. The impactof IAPT on ... to many NHS services IAPT services are subject to the tendering process. Every five yearsproviders have to compete in order to win the tender and ... ...
  • Expand and contract.
    • No. 2001, January 2001
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Warchus, John
    • Application service providers - Brief Article
    ... ... out site visits, client references and, usually, a competitive tendering process before concluding a contract. The formal tendering process is ... ...
  • India: Procurement Frauds
    • No. 7-2, April 1999
    • Journal of Financial Crime
    • 183-185
    Any study of procurement frauds in India would be primarily in the context of procurements by the government and public sector undertakings. India, with its mixed economy, has a vibrant private sec...
    ... ... The system of tendering in various types of con-tracts is well defined. In purchases of a ... accounts and examining the trends of purchases, thus delaying the process of detection of procurement frauds. TYPES OF FRAUD Acts connected with ... ...
  • Business transfers and contracting out. Compulsory competitive tendering in tatters?
    • No. 17-8, December 1995
    • Employee Relations
    • 21-28
    Compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) and market testing are central and controversial planks of government economic policy. Critics question the level of efficiency gains which flows from the pro...
    ... ... This process reflected a beliefthat within the public sector such policies could imitate the processes ofcompetitive markets and therefore generate efficiency ... ...
  • Paper chase: as the world tunes in to the Beijing Olympics, businesses are limbering up for London 2012. The organisers insist that any company can win a lucrative contract, writes Christian Doherty, but do small players have a sporting chance?
    • No. 2008, April 2008
    • Financial Management (UK)
    • Doherty, Christian
    ... ... that have had little exposure to public procurement, the Olympic tendering process can seem like a labyrinthine nightmare. But the ODA has at least ... ...
  • ‘Management by Contract’: A Study of Programmatic and Technological Aspects
    • No. 79-3, September 2001
    • Public Administration
    The practice of ‘Management by Contract’ can — as with any practice — be characterized by programmatic and technological dimensions. These dimensions contain concepts and ideas at the programmatic ...
    ... ... Purchaser/Provider split) and a method often used (competitive tendering) will be discussed. The second part presents some technological effects ... to join in and compete with external bidders in the tendering process. In other words, the in-house unit submits a tender for the right to ... ...
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