Public Procurement
After a long gestation period the UK Procurement Bill has finally reached the end of its legislative process. The Bill has now received Royal Assent, the final hurdle to become law, in this case the Procurement Act. It did so in the proverbial nick of time bearing in mind that
Public Procurement
The written evidence submitted to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee on the Procurement Bill is now available here. So far 17 submissions have been received, so let’s hope they are taken into account. Yours truly is available directly here and elaborates upon the points I made in
Public Procurement
As mentioned last week, the Procurement Bill is back in the House of Commons and the Committee is looking for evidence submissions until February. In the meanwhile, these are some of my main reflections on the Bill as it stands at the moment. Michael Bowsher has also put some thoughts
Public Procurement
Last week the Cabinet Office published a press release entitled '350 rules to be ditched, creating a simpler, more flexible and transparent procurement' which is so outlandish in its claims that it warrants a proper fisking almost line by line: “” No evidence of these '350 EU laws&
Public Procurement
I am yet to really get my teeth into the Procurement Bill laid before Parliament a couple of weeks ago, but have had a chance to look into exclusions and just those few articles warrant a blogpost by themselves. It is fair to say I am not a fan of
Public Procurement
In 'honour’ of the Procurement Bill being laid before Parliament in the UK, me and Albert are finally making available on SSRN the paper we authored for the European Law Review back in 2019 about the UK’ transition from an EU-based procurement legal system to one of its own.
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