Tim Johnson, head of development consulting, London & southeast at DTZ, gives step three of his advice for getting private developers involved. Links for Tim’s previous two articles are at the bottom.

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In the last post, I set out the first of the issues that you should take into account when setting out your procurement strategy, relating specifically to your procurement options.

The next step is to identify the procurement routes open to you under the Public Contracts Regulations. These are available to download here.

You should test each of these processes against your project objectives to determine the best way forward.

In general, the ‘open’ and ‘restricted’ routes are more appropriate in situations where a standard product is sought, for example bulk ordering items such as stationery.

The ‘negotiated’ and ‘competitive dialogue’ routes are more suited to regeneration projects that are less commoditised, for example where you may not have identified specific details related to size, scale, phasing, timing etc.

Whilst the ‘negotiated’ route was previously the preferred process for regeneration projects delivered through development agreements between councils and their partners,  ‘competitive dialogue’ is now required apart from in exceptional circumstances.

Once you have decided on the appropriate procurement process, it is time to move on to the execution of that process and to make sure that your approach is attractive to your potential partners, an issue that I will cover in the next post.

Further pieces in this series are to follow soon…

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<<< Back: To read the previous article in this series, click here

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