Sentences with phrase «competitive tender»

Private sector providers were most successful at winning contracts awarded via competitive tender — 80 (41 %), compared to 59 (30 %) won by NHS providers.

Lawyers have expressed concerns about government proposals for a price competitive tendering process to consolidate provision of help to people facing eviction.

Chris Grayling announced his plans for competitive tendering for criminal legal aid in April 2013.

The anticipated financial impact of the new or modified fee schemes for the transitional period before the introduction of competitive tendering in October 2008 and April 2009 indicated that they posed «a considerable risk to the stability of an already fragile legal aid market».

But this path to obsolescence is a near certainty because the discussions around who BigLaw's clients are — focuses on the GC — and what needs to be done to win marginal advantage in competitive tenders to a shrinking group of MNC's.

The process of procuring services through competitive tendering limits meaningful engagement and collaboration.

The Government has just announced that it plans to bring forward to April 2013 its consultation on introducing competitive tendering for criminal legal aid work.

insisting on competitive tendering for expert services or third party vendors and outsourcers for disclosure exercises.

You could also, as the LSC already has, use competitive tendering in relation to high - value cases.

The committee then turned to the ultimate goal of the reform proposals, the adoption of a market - based system where legal aid rates would be determined by competitive tendering for block contracts.

The problem areas of the legal aid budget — crown court defence work and child care proceedings — should be addressed swiftly, but the committee said it failed to see the need for «potentially short - sighted transitional arrangements for legal aid remuneration in anticipation of the roll out of competitive tendering from October 2008, where there are already mechanisms for controlling unit costs or where the costs of cases appears to be under control».

As a result, Labour has hitched its policies to the cart, helpfully left untended by the outgoing Lord Mackay, of compulsory competitive tendering as the one way of controlling costs.

Addressing the press in Accra on Tuesday, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, appealed to the media «to probe further whether this contract was awarded through an open competitive tender process to guarantee and ensure value for money.»

Real estate developer group Essential Living has appointed ten firms to its inaugural legal panel, following a three - month competitive tendering process.

Badly run competitive tendering schemes degenerate very quickly.

I say «sort of» because, although the ill - thought and probably unworkable price competitive tendering scheme has been binned, in its place an across - the - board 17.5 % fee cut will be imposed upon a beleaguered defence profession as well as a restatement of the commitment to save # 220m from the legal aid budget.

ALECTIA's competitive tendering approach was implemented by Farsons to procure packaging equipment at a low cost.

On the commitments made to protect the public purse, Mr Akufo - Addo stressed that his government is «bringing back competitive tendering for all transactions in the public sector.

Was there competitive tendering and if yes how many copies were produced?

Whether competitive tendering, selective or sole sourcing, entities are made aware that the selection process does not constitute any formal contract.

Primary distributors are allowed to request bonds at the average price of the accepted competitive tenders.

Legal aid in Scotland has already bypassed franchising, contracting, and the threat of competitive tendering among its providers.

Fortunately, such were the problems with the duty tenders, at least for this Parliament competitive tendering for criminal legal aid is unlikely to be resurrected, but a further clash with criminal legal aid firms is on the horizon.

A slight digression: it was interesting to read in the Legal Action Group's (LAG's) Austerity Justice book that the coalition government dropped plans to introduce competitive tendering because, as LAG director Steve Hynes tells it, Ken Clarke was persuaded by «his old colleagues at the criminal bar».

This is about competitive tendering, the closure of law firms, not having fees raised, not being paid for travelling and waiting.

It is no recommendation of this out - housed policy - making that we end up with competitive tendering.

Only where there is a sufficiently large number of suppliers can competitive tendering work and conflicts of interest in criminal defence or family cases be avoided.

The greatest problem facing competitive tendering was the development of a supplier base and a market after the first and subsequent bid rounds.

We would prefer to see competitive tendering — insofar as that is a solution to the problem — implemented directly, once there has been adequate piloting.

The chairman of the LSC had assured the committee that this would not apply when it came to rolling out competitive tendering generally.

Since criminal defence work currently was the major driver in overall legal aid expenditure, piloting competitive tendering in the area of criminal legal aid would be justified.

«In the light of this uncertainty and the general lack of data, the DCA [Department for Constitutional Affairs] / LSC's intention of a nationwide imposition of fixed fees followed rapidly by competitive tendering across the entire legal aid system is a breathtaking risk.

The motion calls for solicitors to knock back the government's plans to introduce competitive tendering between firms and the awarding of fixed - length contracts for legal aid work.

Following a highly competitive tender, Fieldfisher LLP has secured one of only 8 places on the full legal panel of food retailer Co-op.

Competitive tendering involves opening the delivery of Indigenous legal services to tender, including to non-Indigenous law firms.

Competitive tenders inherently favour large mainstream organisations.

Real estate development group Essential Living has appointed ten firms to its inaugural legal panel, following a three - month competitive tendering process.

«I mean what sort of house is it supposed to be, is the gate made of gold, pavement made of gold, blocks of gold, a house in Ghana for 13.9 million dollars... I couldn't believe it... and I am hundred percent sure it didn't go through competitive tender... and there it stands uncompleted,» Dr. Bawumia said.

Corporate clients often no longer authorize «carte blanche» legal expenditure, alternative fee arrangements are more common, and clients are continually questioning where they can save on legal expenses using competitive tendering and paneling.

It urged the government to reconsider the need for «potentially short sighted»» transitional arrangements in light of the roll out of competitive tendering from October 2008.

Criminal lawyers were unimpressed by the principle, or the proposed method of implementation, of compulsory competitive tendering.

The solicitors were protesting against low legal aid fees, as well as the Carter reforms, which will introduce price competitive tendering and drive many firms out of business or force them to merge.

The committee said that there was little or no research evidence about the likely effect of competitive tendering in this field.

Intense competition among small to medium - sized builders is resulting in competitive tenders and tight margins.

It would be interesting to see what feed in tariffs would be if the tariff was set by competitive tendering for the supply of rooftop solar power.

The grass roots action has been arranged by lawyers furious at the potential impact of the Carter proposals, which will introduce competitive tendering, as well as a range of issues surrounding their pay.

Most companies do not know that the lowest price does not often equate to a good bargain, as a number of clients opt for open competitive tendering in their source selection for their projects.

- The introduction of competitive tendering for criminal defence work (except for Crown Court advocacy and Very High Cost (Crime) cases).

Previously, Ontario put renewable projects out for competitive tender; this produced rock - bottom bids but also left projects prone to cancellation due to razor - thin margins.