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The 1988 Local Government Act greatly extended compulsory competitive tendering within local authorities. This paper adds to our understanding of changes to local government work organisation since ...

Michael Todd QC, incoming chairman of the Bar Council, said the government's decision to delay competitive tendering for criminal legal aid by two years was the result of “a sustained effort by the ...

Mark Drinkwater reports on how competitive tendering of services can leave staff, and service users, feeling all at sea Mark Drinkwater reports on how the revolving door of competitive tendering of ...

Background There exists in the National Health Service a history of compulsory competitive tendering for equipment and services (e.g. medical equipment building construction). However, introduction of ...

The ruling was greeted with disappointment by Unison, which said it would only prolong the ''confusion'' surrounding the position of public sector employees under compulsory competitive tendering.