Public contracts mean 'legal risks'

By Helen Warrell, Third Sector, 20 February 2008

Third sector umbrella bodies should consider how they would support members that are sued if they breach the terms of public contracts, a tendering support service has warned.

Janet Roberts, director of Tendering for Care, raised the alert after noticing a flood of contracts open to third sector organisations. Roberts has calculated that a record 73 contracts published in the first week of February related to services provided by voluntary and community groups. She said that this represented...

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