{"id":60673,"date":"2015-08-25T10:49:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=923ad4067381f466f276a44238f87ffa"},"modified":"2015-08-25T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T10:49:01","slug":"news-story-proposals-published-to-simplify-speed-up-and-save-money-on-procurement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=60673","title":{"rendered":"News story: Proposals published to simplify, speed up and save money on procurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Through these public procurement regulations, we will implement 2 new EU procurement directives for utilities contracts and concessions contracts to support government\u2019s commercial reform programme. <\/p>\n<p>The changes will enable a more modern, flexible and commercial approach making the public procurement process faster, less costly, and more effective for businesses and buyers.<\/p>\n<p>The draft regulations are now available for public consultation. The closing date for responses is 18 September 2015.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>View the draft regulations and further information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/transposing-the-eu-procurement-directives-utilities-contracts-regulations\">utilities contracts consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>View the draft regulations and further information on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/transposing-the-eu-procurement-directives-concessions-contracts-regulations\">concessions contracts consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are consulting on 2 new regulations to further simplify the procurement process, making it faster and less costly to buy goods and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}