Monthly Archives: December 2014

Public sector contracts can be valuable, beyond the profit margin (regular payment, high profile, opportunity for work across the sector). However, the bidding process is onerous! The pre-qualification questionnaire seeks to filter out companies that aren’t capable. However, they don’t make it very easy. Requirements such as showing you’ve undertaken ten contracts in three years, […]

  Liquidated Damages (LD’s) are a misunderstood and emotive concept for procurement specialists. A starting point for clarity is the fact that in English Law a penalty clause is illegal. An LD clause is penal if it provides for payment of money stipulated as ‘in terrorem’ of the offending party to force him to perform […]