Public Procurement
Back in 2020 (and 2021) I went out on a limb stating that when it come down to the pandemic preparation in early 2020, ie before March 23rd the UK government did not take the risk of Covid seriously enough and did not act when it should. This was (and
Public Procurement
The last couple of weeks have been consumed with news about Baroness Mone and her role in securing PPE contracts for MedPro (here, here, here, here, here). Most of the discussion has (rightly) been about the ultimate beneficiary of MedPro and associated tax implications. For me the interest on MedPro&
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
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