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The Procurement Act 2023’s Kaleidoscopic View of the Public Interest

University of Bristol

The paper will be published in Legal Studies in due course.(*) Public procurement is concerned with the award of contracts for the supply, for pecuniary interest, of goods, services or works to the public sector.

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Remedies When The Government Ceases Paying a Contractor, Grantee, or Cooperatee

Procurement Notes

75] Again, the purpose of a procurement contract is for an Agency to obtain the goods, services, intellectual property, and/or construction that the Agency needs to meet its mission to the American people. [76] 129, 143 (2002) and Restatement (Second) of Contracts 252)). [51] 76] A grant or cooperative agreement is different.

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An In-Depth Examination of Inflation Relief for a Government Contractor

Procurement Notes

91, 94 (2002) (price increase is not an out-of-scope mod. 193] Yet, with inflation in the background, that pricing arguably does not reflect the reasonable value of the construction/goods/services when those things were actually provided. 2002) (quoting Restatement (Second) of Contracts § 261, cmt. 2002) (quoting N.