Legislation

All Council procurement is governed by UK and EC legislation which can be found on the Government's website : http://www.ogc.gov.uk/index.asp?id=1004558

Further information about the EU Procurement Directives can be found at www.simap.europa.eu

In particular Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 5 (the Public Contracts Regulations 2006) can be found at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2006/20060005.htm

The principles of EC law are that all Council procurement of works, goods and services will be:

• Transparent
• Non-discriminatory
• Proportional
• and that there shall be mutual recognition of national standards

The EC have set financial thresholds and all procurement above these thresholds must be advertised within the EU Journal which is available to companies throughout Europe.  Consequently, for mainstream goods and services which the Council purchase regularly, we will advertise within the EU Journal any procurement above the following annual values:

• £ 36,000   for the supply of goods or services
• £ 900,000 for the procurement of ‘works’

‘goods’, ‘services’ and ‘works’ are specifically defined within schedules of the Public Contracts Regulations (see above).

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