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What is Open Procedure in UK procurement?
Open procedure is a procurement one-stage process in which all bidders/suppliers are invited to bid on a tender. This method is used when research shows there may be a small amount of bidders who could meet the project needs.
While open procedure is the quickest and easiest way to award a contract, it permits no opportunity of negotiation.
Open Procedure and UK Government Procurement
The UK Government regards the open procedure as the ‘default’ procedure for government procurement.
As outlined in the Green Paper, the Bill aims to decrease the quantity of regulated procurement processes and grants greater flexibility to contracting authorities in structuring and executing their procurements.
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