Can a contracting authority cannot apply weightings, rules or sub criteria that it has not previously brought to the tenderers?

Legal_Expert 18 January 2013 13:24 2

No. See Letting International Ltd v Newham London Borough Council [2008] EWHC 1583 (QB).

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