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
8.1 Without prejudice to CSO 8.2, where a collaborative contract or framework has been let by another public authority or central buying organisation through competition, and in accordance with its own contract standing orders and legal requirements, this contract shall be deemed to comply with the Council’s Contract Standing Orders.
8.2 Before using any collaborative contract, an officer must first verify that:
- a) the contract was procured in accordance with all relevant UK and EU law; and
- b) the contract was advertised appropriately, and specifically that the scope of the advert allowed the contract’s use by the Council; and
- c) the contract has been let on appropriate conditions of contract; and
- d) the contract offers, or is reasonably likely to offer, better overall value for money, or benefit to the Council, than the Council could achieve through independent procurement
Page updated:
09/10/2020
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