{"id":454,"date":"2015-11-25T17:34:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/?post_type=question&#038;p=454"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:26:09","slug":"the-councils-procedures-seem-to-be-long-winded-and-complicated-do-they-really-need-to-be-like-this","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/question\/the-councils-procedures-seem-to-be-long-winded-and-complicated-do-they-really-need-to-be-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"The council\u2019s procedures seem to be long winded and complicated, do they really need to be like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a local authority we are bound by a number of rules and regulations dictating the way we conduct procurement. The Council is bound by the following rules and regulations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DCC internal code of business conduct which is designed to ensure that public money is spent in a transparent and responsible way<\/li>\n<li>UK law which dictates how business should be carried out<\/li>\n<li>The European Union Procurement Directives which aim to ensure that the procurement process remains fair, open, transparent and open to all regardless of geographical boundaries within the EU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faq-topic":[5],"faq-tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","faq-topic-procurement-faqs"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-topic?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"faq-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}