Radhika Devesher
Radhika provides high quality, targeted and accessible legal advice across a range of practice areas and delivers effective solutions to legal issues. She has advised on a range of public sector organisations on outsourcing projects, high value service contracts, framework agreements and contract variations.
She delivers pragmatic legal advice and support, with a focus on providing solutions for her clients. Working across a number of areas enables Radhika to pass on an in-depth legal knowledge of the matter in hand, but also raise ancillary issues which may not have been identified.
Radhika advises clients on planning for and conducting multi-stage procurement exercises, including exploring competition and evaluation strategies, preparing procurement documentation, evaluating tenders, awarding contracts, debriefing bidders and risk management throughout the procurement. She also advises on all aspects of public sector contracts, from the outset of a procurement process, through to completion and dealing with post close contractual issues. Radhika has been involved in a variety of projects spanning a number of industries including, Central Government, Local Government, waste and ICT.
Radhika is skilled in delivering tailored training sessions and breaks down complex areas of law into smaller digestible sections of information, whilst making it appropriate for the industry of the audience, and/or the focus of the procurement.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Experience
- Sharpe Pritchard LLP (2019 - Present)
- London Borough of Camden (2009 - 2019)
2 Contributions by Radhika Devesher
PRACTICE NOTES
Light touch contracts under the Procurement Act 2023: scope, thresholds, notices, tendering and award, user choice, public service mutuals reservations, frameworks, modifications and remedies
STOP PRESS
From 24 February 2025, the core provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023) take effect and apply. Competitions commencing on or after that date must proceed under PA 2023, while procurements started under the earlier regimes — the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015), the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, the Concession Regulations 2016, and the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011 — must continue to be run and overseen in line with those rules and procedures accordingly. See Practice Note: Introduction to the Procurement Act 2023—PA 2023.
This material concerns the Procurement Act 2023 regime. It provides practical guidance on public procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023). For practical guidance on light touch contracts under the former legislation, see Practice Note: Considerations when authorities procure contracts that are not subject to the full procurement regime.
Overview of the light touch public procurement regime
Under PA 2023, light touch contracts (LTCs) mean contracts wholly or predominantly for the delivery of identified services, as listed in regulations made by an appropriate authority — that is, a Minister, the Welsh Ministers, or a Northern Ireland department...
Public Law
PRACTICE NOTES
Practical guide to below-threshold contracts under the Procurement Act 2023: scope, thresholds, procedures, notices, SME/VCSE reservations, frameworks, dynamic markets, payment terms, modifications and remedies
This practical guidance relates to the Procurement Act 2023 regime
From 24 February 2025, the core provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 (PA 2023) take effect. Procurements started on or after that date must, where applicable, proceed under PA 2023. Procurements initiated under the former regime—the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, SI 2015/102; the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, SI 2016/274; the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, SI 2016/273; and the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011, SI 2011/1848—must continue to be conducted and overseen in line with that legislation. This guidance concentrates on public procurement under PA 2023. For practical guidance on below-threshold contracts under the prior regime, see Practice Note: Considerations when authorities procure contracts that are not subject to the full procurement regime—pre PA 2023.
The below-threshold public procurement regime
In general, the below‑threshold regime affords contracting authorities greater scope to craft an appropriate procurement exercise. Part 6 of PA 2023 prescribes the rules governing the procurement of below‑threshold contracts, including provisions on procurement procedures, duties, notices and implied payment terms...
Public Law
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