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Some public authorities use the negotiated or competitive dialogue procedures for awarding contracts, when in fact the regulations are actually quite strict on which procedure they should choose and authorities should be using the Open or Restricted procedure in most circumstances.
Archive for November, 2011
Inappropriate use of Negotiated and Competitive Dialogue Procedures
Posted by Tim Williams on November 18, 2011
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Procurement Fraud in English Councils
Posted by Tim Williams on November 10, 2011
The Audit Commission has today published the results of its annual survey of fraud against English councils and related bodies (Protecting the Public Purse 2011). The 2010/11 report shows that:
- fraud directed against public sector organisations costs taxpayers £21.2 billion/year
- fraud against councils costs more than £2 billion/year
- councils detected more than £185 million worth of fraud (<10% of the total), involving 121,000 cases
- the total value detected increased by 37 per cent compared against 2009/10, with the number of cases detected also rising
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