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The post below was first published on our Public Law blog The UK Government has published a Green Paper proposing fundamental reforms of the public procurement rules governing the purchase of goods, works and services by the public sector and certain utilities. Those rules are currently set out in a series of UK regulations that … Read more
The post below was first published on our Competition blog The Government continues to prepare the ground for the regulation of public procurement after the post-Brexit transition period expires on 31 December 2020. On 19 November it enacted the Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) (PPAR 2020). These amend the existing UK procurement … Read more
During the recent election campaign, the UK Conservative Government pledged to reform public procurement law in the UK post-Brexit. Boris Johnson announced that, by 1 January 2021, the Government would put in place a new regime which is simpler, cheaper and more geared towards promoting British business and the local economy. However, the announcement was … Read more
In a recent Public Procurement Podcast Tim Briggs, Partner (Competition, Regulation & Trade) and Adrian Brown (Of Counsel, Competition, Regulation & Trade) consider the UK Government’s Brexit-driven proposals for reform of the UK public procurement regime. If you would like to subscribe to future episodes in the Public Procurement Podcast Series, please click here. Read more
The extent to which the UK Government will eventually be free to modify or even repeal the regulations on public procurement, post-Brexit, will depend largely on the outcome of the ongoing negotiations between the EU and the UK Government, as well as the policy choices of the UK Government post-Brexit. Several recent developments in the … Read more