Procurement – Covid-19

Market shaping should be embedded in public procurement, says competition authority report

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has responded to the Treasury consultation on public procurement with a proposal to embed ‘market shaping’ in public procurement processes.

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Call to scrap VAT on retrofitting to support circular economy strategy

The Environmental Industries Commission (EIC) is calling on government and industry to put the circular economy at the heart of UK infrastructure delivery.

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Construction at a tipping point in AI uptake, says RICS report

Construction is on the brink of a digital transformation driven by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). But skills shortages, integration challenges, data availability and high costs threaten the success of the transformation.

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AI growth zone to create construction demand and attract £30 billion investment

An AI Growth Zone is to be created in the North East of England that the government says will generate more than 5,000 new jobs and attract up to £30 billion in private investment.

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Golden age for nuclear predicted as UK and USA reach deal on energy security

The government is claiming a new ‘golden age’ for nuclear power in the UK as companies in the UK and United States signed major deals to ‘turbocharge the build-out of new nuclear power stations’. The deal will ‘get Britain building more nuclear and support billions in private investment into clean energy’, the government says.

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Energy Secretary sets out vision for publicly-owned clean energy developments

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has set out his vision for Great British Energy (GBE), the UK’s publicly-owned clean power company. GBE is to develop, invest in and own clean energy projects, working in tandem with the private sector and devolved governments.

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Tighter bidding in sluggish market carries project delivery risks, warns new report

A lack of new project orders is forcing contractors into tighter, more competitive bidding, with downstream risks for project delivery, warns cost consultant Rider Levett Bucknall (RLB) in its latest Construction Market Intelligence report.

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Investors call for expanded role for private finance in infrastructure funding

The Association of Infrastructure Investors in Public Private Partnerships (AIIP) has called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to change rules to allow social infrastructure projects to use private finance for the first time since 2018.

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Judicial review succeeds due to failure to publish draft section 106 agreement

Failure to publish the draft section of a Section 106 agreement led to Kirklees Council losing a judicial review over a planned housing development.

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Progress claimed on RAAC removal

More than half of RAAC-affected schools and colleges are either fully free of the material or on the path to removal, the Department for Education (DfE) says.

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