6.15pm registration for a 6.30pm start | 1.5 CPD Points

Chair: Michael Bowsher QC

Rob Williams: Introduction: Smart bidding – why bidders need to engage with their legal rights sooner

• Why you should challenge a procurement sooner rather than later:
  • Chances of influencing shape of procurement
  • Lower costs
  • Better chances of success
  • Interaction with remedies later on - suspension
  • Problems caused by time limits
  • Court fees

Philip Moser QC: Levelling the playing field

• Pre-procurement engagement
• Technical specifications
• Incumbency
• Unfair negotiation

Valentina Sloane: Transparency challenges

• Open days
• Vague criteria and methodology
• Clarifications
• Whole Life Costing
• Frameworks

Fiona Banks: Talking tactics

• Limitation
• How to make an early challenge
• Using the Regulations
• Avenues outside the regulations

Ewan West: If all else fails…

• The introduction to litigation we hope you’ll never need
• Applications:
  • Injunctions/suspension
  • Disclosure

This seminar is free to attend.

If you are a student wishing to attend, please contact Claire Bowers marketing@monckton.com.