The Weekly Law Reports
[2024] 3 WLR 319
Court of Appeal
Braceurself Ltd
v
NHS England
[2024] EWCA Civ 39
2023 Nov 29; 2024 Jan 30
Coulson, Dingemans, Snowden LJJ
Public procurement— Contract award procedure— Breach— Contracting authority failing to award public contract to claimant due to manifest error of fact during award process— Whether contracting authority’s breach of duty “sufficiently serious” to warrant award of damages— Whether consequences of breach rendering it sufficiently serious— Whether excusability of error relevant to whether breach sufficiently serious— Whether finding at interlocutory stage that damages adequate remedy making award of damages necessary—
Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102), regs 91(1), 98