This review has highlighted several important issues for commissioners when awarding new contracts using Direct Award Process C.
• First, where contracts are low value and/or short term and commissioners wish to carry out an assessment process that is accordingly proportionate, the resulting process must still be robust, coherent and comprehensible, both to those carrying out the process and to other interested stakeholders.
• Second, the same standards for recordkeeping apply to the award of contracts under Direct Award Process C as apply to other provider selection processes under the PSR regulations (e.g. the competitive process).
• Finally, commissioners must keep decision making records intact and separate from other documents supplied to the Panel (or other stakeholders) during any subsequent review process.
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