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Book SynopsisContract plays a vitally important role in the delivery of public services today. Both central and local government make extensive use of private firms to provide facilities, goods, and services. Government contracts vary considerably from the relatively straightforward competitive procurement of office supplies, to complex, long-term arrangements in which the contractor researches and develops a new piece of military equipment, or builds and provides a fully serviced hospital over a thirty-year period. English law''s traditional approach to government contracts has been to regard them as ordinary private law arrangements. As a result, they have understandably been neglected by public lawyers in both teaching and research. This book argues that, on closer inspection, constitutional and administrative law (in the form of statute, common law, and government guidance) have been playing an increasingly important role in the regulation of certain key aspects of government contracting. The b
Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Regulating Government Contracts ; 3. The Public Law Perspective ; 4. The Decision to Use Contract ; 5. Awarding the Contract ; 6. Dealing with Policy Changes ; 7. Contract Management ; 8. Government Contractors: Public or Private? ; 9. Social and Environmental Goals ; 10. Employment Matters ; 11. Conclusions and Future Prospects
