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Running your own buying process for purchases above the EU threshold
Follow this process for direct-to-supplier procurement over the EU threshold. Purchases of this value have more rules to follow, so use this guidance to help you stay compliant.
Contents
- Check that your purchase is above the EU threshold
- Seek legal advice
- Assess the market
- Choose an open or restricted process
- Decide how you'll assess the winning bid
- Advertise your bid
- Send your invitation to tender
- Answer suppliers' questions
- Choose the winning bid
- Inform suppliers of your decision
- Award the contract
- Abandoning the process
Also in this topic: Procurement
- Deciding who should manage procurement in your trust
- How to manage a contract
- How to protect your trust against payment fraud
- How to put a contract in place
- Improving your contract management
- Managing all of your contracts: tools
- Planning a purchase: before you start
- Planning a purchase: choose the right buying process
- Planning a purchase: write a specification
- Planning a purchase: write your business case
- Running your buying process using a framework agreement
- Running your own high-value buying process
- Running your own low to medium value buying process
- Writing and managing contracts: summary explainer
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