Public Procurement
Not long after Prince Charles stood in for the Queen for the Queen’s Speech and the Government was laying before Parliament the new Procurement Bill, thus meaning we went straight from the consultation on the Green Paper to the (almost) final product without the intermediate step of a White
Public Procurement
As mentioned yesterday I attended a conference on sustainability in public procurement last week in Lisbon, probably the first sustainability-related conference I have attended since May 2017 and a good opportunity to take stock of what has changed over the years. Externally, the pressure is on to combat climate change
Public Procurement
Last week I attended my first in person conference this side of COVID and I think it is fair to make a couple of observations regarding the experience. Overall, it seemed like COVID never happened and it was business as usual since it was a purely physical event with no
Legal
Two PhD positions have just been announced for CBS LAW. One in Compliance/Financial Compliance, the other in Digital Transformations & Law, both starting in Autumn 2022: https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-compliancefinancial-compliance-the-department-of-management https://www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa-cbs/ledige-stillinger/phd-scholarship-within-the-field-of-digital-transformations-and-the-law-the-department-of-management I’m not involved direc
Public Procurement
After spending most of 2020 commenting on the blog how COVID-related procurement was being carried out in the UK, the logical next step was always going to write a paper about it, particularly on the rules surrounding extremely urgent public procurement under Directive 2014/24/EU. The paper was published
Public Procurement
I have just made available on SSRN a paper co-authored with Desiree Klinger on the issues surrounding non-compiance with contract terms in public contracts. This is part of the next book in the European Procurement Law Series and compares the findings from 9 European jurisdictions covered in the book. Here’
Public Procurement
A couple of days ago I made reference to the Department for Health and Social Care annual report and its information about the losses on PPE. As it turns out the report contained more information related to public procurement warranting a comment. Once again buried deep in the report, the
Public Procurement
The yearly report from the Department for Health and Social Care makes for grim reading in what concerns Covid-related procurement, with the headline figure being the loss of £8.7 billion of the £12.1 billion of PPE spent in the financial year of 2020-21. Over half of the loss
Public Procurement
The High Court has just handed down a landmark ruling considering some contracts awarded via the UK government VIP route as illegal, namely those with PestFix and Ayanda Capital. The judgment itself can be found here. Over the last two years (well, almost) I have taken a fairly stringent view
Public Procurement
Just yesterday, The Guardian reports that Labour's Angela Rayner obtaining information about the infamous VIP procurement route set up by the UK Government early on in the pandemic. Despite official protestations that each contract had been awarded after an 'eight step process' - whatever that means
Public Procurement
The UK Government has finally published its response to the consultation on the Procurement Green Paper which closed in March earlier this year with over 600 submissions. Predictably the summary of the response dwells on the positives and support for the changes proposed in the Green Paper, but to be
Public Procurement
The Caranta and Sanchez-Graells’ Commentary on Directive 2014/24/EU is finally out, published by Edward Elgar. This is a fairly sizeable and detailed commentary to the Directive and includes 4 entries (Arts 30, 59, 60 and 61).