The primary features of these regulations include the following:
The introduction of an obligation to notify candidates of their exclusion at the selection stage;
Changing to the content of the award decision notice;
Alteration to the length of the standstill period if notice is sent by post or courier;
There is no longer an accelerated debriefing requirement;
There is now an automatic suspension of the procurement on challenge;
The Court has been awarded the power to terminate the suspension requirement;
The time limits within which proceedings must be started is still ‘promptly and in any event within 3 months’.