Overview

Are you still getting to grips with the new standstill rules? Are you yet to master the complexities of the new regime which can operate to nullify signed contracts? Just when we might be forgiven for thinking the upheavals in procurement law have passed, the rules have changed again - this time, with effect from 1 October 2011. Thankfully, the latest changes do not amount to a wholesale re-write of huge chunks of the legislation, as they did at the end of 2009. But they do bring about one particularly important change - a change which bidders, just as much as procuring authorities, need to know about.