{"id":95427,"date":"2018-09-07T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=320f1d02c2a82bdc919cbce9ecde0009"},"modified":"2018-09-07T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T17:38:55","slug":"news-story-civil-news-2018-contract-interim-arrangements-end-7-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95427","title":{"rendered":"News story: Civil news: 2018 contract interim arrangements end 7 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>It is important for providers to accept their 2018 Standard Civil Contracts by 7 September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Providers may still execute their contracts later than 8 September but will not be able to open new matters until they do so.<\/p>\n<p>We made interim arrangements, which were published on 31 August 2018, to allow providers to continue working without having accepted contracts.<\/p>\n<p>These arrangements only applied to providers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>advised by us that their contracts have been successfully verified but who have been unable to execute their contract in Contracted Work and Administration (CWA)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>who have successfully completed verification but are yet to be assigned account numbers for new offices<br \/>\nDetails of the interim or \u2018contingency\u2019 arrangements and a further update on 3 September can be downloaded on the 2018 civil contracts tender page.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"civil-contract-work-from-8-september-2018\">Civil contract work from 8 September 2018<\/h3>\n<p>From 8 September 2018 all providers must have a 2018 Standard Civil Contract which they have accepted in CWA to be able to undertake work.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1,400 contracts have been uploaded into CWA with a small number of contracts being uploaded on 7 September where issues have been resolved. However, there are 100 still to be accepted, with some of these having been uploaded over two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"outstanding-issues\">Outstanding issues<\/h3>\n<p>We are continuing to resolve outstanding issues and upload contracts for acceptance. Such outstanding issues include where organisations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>have submitted information for verification after the initial deadline of 20 July and in some cases close to the final deadline of 31 August<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>are yet to provide compliant AC1 forms to enable account numbers to be assigned<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We will continue to contact organisations that still have outstanding issues. This will be done on a case by case basis.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"further-information\">Further information<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/civil-2018-contracts-tender\">Civil 2018 contracts tender page<\/a> \u2013 to download details of interim arrangements<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cwa-detailed-user-guides\">CWA detailed user guides<\/a> \u2013 for \u2018contract acceptance user guide\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim arrangements to deliver civil contracts are ending at midnight on 7 September 2018.<\/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\/95427"}],"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=95427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}