Part 4 - Contract Standing Orders
Below are the Contract Standing Orders.
- 1 - Background
- 2 - Scope
- 3 - Accountability and Responsibility
- 4 - Basic principles
- 5 - Exemptions
- 6 - Requirements to consult Assistant Director of Legal Services and Assistant Director of Strategic Procurement
- 7 - Grants and external funding
- 8 - Collaborative Procurement, Frameworks and Use of Agents
- 9 - The contracting process
- 10 - General
- 11 - Select lists
- 12 - The quotation process
- 13 - Requirements applicable to all tendering exercises
- 14 - Tendering exercises
- 15 - Conditions of contract and contract formalities
- 16 - Other requirements
1.1 The purpose of these Contract Standing Orders is to ensure that all Council contracts are demonstrably made:
- a) in compliance with the law and best practice;
- b) maximising fairness, transparency and competition;
- c) to improve quality and value for money;
- d) to enable the Council to develop and deliver its Commercial Strategy; and
e) in compliance with the Council’s Financial Regulations.
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09/10/2020
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