News tagged government
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L&G secures major government letting at Faber offices in Sunderland
The Department for Work and Pensions has taken three of the five floors at the scheme, which is party of the wider River Sunderland city-centre regeneration project. The post L&G secures major government letting at Faber offices in Sunderland appeared first on Property Week.
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Social-value procurement rules to drop net zero for skills
Net-zero considerations will be removed from the social-value criteria used to score bids for major government contracts from next year in favour of a jobs and skills focus. The Cabinet Office’s new Social Value Model, will focus exclusively on jobs, employment conditions and skills, replacing… The post Social-value procurement rules to drop net zero for skills appeared first on Construction News.
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Government puts jobs and skills at heart of public procurement
Government reforms will double the weighting given to social value in contracts worth more than £5m The post Government puts jobs and skills at heart of public procurement appeared first on Construction Management.
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Public work bidders face 20% jobs and skills hurdle
Firms chasing government work face tougher job creation and pay scoring from January
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Stopgap transportation funding fails to advance in Senate
A Senate reconciliation bill would cut public transit funding by 20% and passenger rail funding by 83%. Without a bill, another government shutdown looms.
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Cheating or Competing? Price-fixing
Short descriptor video on what price-fixing is, why it's wrong and what you can do to stop it.
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The Group has focussed on four key areas: new procurement models, the „Intelligent Client‟, the effectiveness of frameworks and cross-government collaboration in procurement.
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HM Gov - British Energy Security Strategy, 06042022
The UK Government has now issued its latest Energy (Supply) Strategy which aims to boost UK energy independence and tackle rising prices. Up to 95% of the UK's electricity could come from low-carbon sources by 2030 Concern has been raised that the Strategy: - does not include new policies on insulating buildings; - that it proposes to seek more oil & gas in the North Sea; and - is it right to expand our Nuclear provision However, the investment with renewables is being welcomed
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A rail review was originally commissioned in 2018 after the failure of the East Coast franchise, as well as serious disruption caused by timetable changes in May 2018. Williams-Shapps review caused ripples in the rail industry earlier in 2021: It revealed that a new company – Great British Railways (GBR) – will combine responsibility for rail infrastructure and train operations for the first time since rail privatisation in the 1990s
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What HS2 could have learnt from HS1 - New Civil Engineer
Lessons learnt and approaches taken for HS1
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