6.15pm registration for a 6.30pm start | 1.5 CPD Points
Chair: Michael Bowsher QC
Rob Williams: Introduction: Smart bidding – why bidders need to engage with their legal rights sooner
- Why you should challenge a procurement sooner rather than later:
- Chances of influencing shape of procurement
- Lower costs
- Better chances of success
- Interaction with remedies later on – suspension
- Problems caused by time limits
- Court fees
Philip Moser QC: Levelling the playing field
- Pre-procurement engagement
- Technical specifications
- Incumbency
- Unfair negotiation
Valentina Sloane: Transparency challenges
- Open days
- Vague criteria and methodology
- Clarifications
- Whole Life Costing
- Frameworks
Fiona Banks: Talking tactics
- Limitation
- How to make an early challenge
- Using the Regulations
- Avenues outside the regulations
Ewan West: If all else fails…
- The introduction to litigation we hope you’ll never need
- Applications:
- Injunctions/suspension
- Disclosure
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