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The Practical impact of the Procurement Act 2023
– the challenges, the benefits and the legal lacunas
In the second of three articles for Local Government Lawyer on the Procurement
Act 2023 one year after it went live, Katherine Calder and Victoria Fletcher from
DAC Beachcroft consider some of its practical impact and implications, including
how to choose the right regime, how authorities are tackling the notice requirements,
considerations when making modifications, and setting and monitoring KPIs.
The Practical impact of the Procurement
Act 2023 – the challenges, the benefits
and the legal lacunas
Katherine Calder and Victoria Fletcher from DAC Beachcroft
consider some of its practical impact and implications,
including how to choose the right regime, how authorities
are tackling the notice requirements, considerations when
making modifications, and setting and monitoring KPIs.


Weekly mandatory food
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councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.
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councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
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The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.
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FOI and information held on computer systems
Correcting mistakes in public decision making
The Supreme Court on termination of JCT contracts
Weekly mandatory food waste collections
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The powers of exclusion panels
Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
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Judge credits psychological assessment with calming of “high octane” conflict between parents and care workers
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Judge criticises arm’s length children’s social care company over FOI failures
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Judge criticises bundle that exceeded 1,200 pages in care proceedings case
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Judge criticises children's trust and clinical commissioning group over "wholesale failure of best interest decisions" for man with epilepsy
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Judge criticises claim against council in private dispute
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Judge criticises council for breaching duty of disclosure when making streamlined application for authorisation of deprivation of liberty
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Judge criticises council for failure to implement recommendations of First-tier Tribunal
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Judge criticises council that conceded care needs dispute
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Judge criticises failures of local authority in care proceedings case
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