Public Procurement: Varying Public Contracts

Walker Morris Procurement specialists Lynsey Oakdene and Kathryn Vickers recently held a webinar explaining how to navigate the safe harbours in order to avoid unfortunate consequences.

The webinar covers:

• When a public contract can be modified
• The consequences of not following procurement rules
• The likely impact of the Procurement Bill.

Procurement risk doesn’t end when a contract is entered into validly and without challenge. Any variation of a validly procured public contract must fall within one of the safe harbours in the Public Contract Regulations. If it doesn’t, it’s likely to amount to the unlawful direct award of a new contract. This can have unfortunate consequences for both contracting authority and contractor.

About the speakers