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Key guidance notes released in build up to Procurement Act 2023

VWV

Transitional and Saving Arrangements - This sets out the transitional arrangements for existing procurements, framework agreements and dynamic purchasing systems, which will generally continue under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, and guidance for deciding when the Act applies to new procurements. The guidance note also covers notices.

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Frameworks under the Procurement Act - FAQs

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Both the framework and call-offs under it will be governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This means there should be no substantial amendments to the tender or transparency notice or to the award criteria for the award of the framework. What is the maximum length of a framework?

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The Public Procurement Glossary

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Contract Award Criteria The contract award criteria are the factors that decide which bid wins. Public Contract Regulations (PCR 2015) The Public Contract Regulations 2015 set the legal framework for public procurement in the UK, ensuring fair competition, transparency, and compliance with procurement procedures.

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Procurement, State Aid, and the Brexit Transition - What Happens Now?

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Some minor amendments have been made to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to ensure the rules will work in practice for a UK domestic system. For contracting authorities and suppliers bidding for public sector contracts, the procurement rules remain largely unchanged, at least for the moment.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

2015) and the Multi-Genre NLI (Williams et al., At present, the low adoption of green criteria is the main barrier. The model we used is described in Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks, which states: “We train SBERT on the combination of the SNLI (Bowman et al., 2018) dataset.