Specialists International
This Knowledge Check tests your understanding of Lesson 2: how English law identifies an offer in construction procurement. It covers the objective test for a present willingness to be bound, the difference between an invitation to treat and an offer, the treatment of tenders, quotations, qualifications and counter-offers, and the rules on revocation and lapse.
The questions draw on Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979] UKHL 6, Storer v Manchester City Council [1974], Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club Ltd v Blackpool Borough Council [1990] EWCA Civ 13, Harvela Investments Ltd v Royal Trust Co of Canada [1985] UKHL 16 and RTS Flexible Systems Ltd v Muller [2010] UKSC 14, together with Hyde v Wrench, Stevenson Jacques and Co v McLean and Dickinson v Dodds.
- The objective definition of an offer
- Invitation to treat versus offer (Gibson and Storer)
- When an invitation to tender is only an invitation for offers
- The tender-process contract in Blackpool and Fylde Aero Club
- An undertaking to accept the highest bid in Harvela
- Qualified tenders and the risk of a counter-offer
- Requests for information versus rejection or counter-offer
- Counter-offers and Hyde v Wrench
- Revocation, lapse and tender validity periods