Latest blogs on procurement law

A useful new PPN 07/21 has been published, setting out new guidance around publication of information to Contracts Finder, together with answers to some frequently asked questions.

The government has recently published a couple of procurement policy notes - one containing the National Procurement Policy statement and the other on how suppliers' carbon reduction plans should be taken into account when procuring major government contracts.

The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are being amended to reflect the UK's procurement obligations under the GPA and various international trade deals.

New draft procurement regulations are expected to be published later this year, with the possibility of a new procurement law regime coming into force in 2022.

On 29 April, Shailee Howard and Jenny Beresford-Jones will be presenting a bite-size webinar on making the most of social value in public procurement

We bid farewell to the OJEU and discuss the changes to the public procurement law regime proposed by the Green Paper on Transforming Public Procurement.

Given the many challenges raised by the Covid pandemic, the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on public procurement will not have been high on many people’s agenda. However, as our exit approaches, minds are rapidly turning in that direction. Some welcome clarity is this week emerging on the shape of public procurement in the UK once the “transition period” has expired and the UK has fully left the EU.

The Cabinet Office has recently published a new PPN, PPN 07/20, around taking in account bidder performance in payment the supplier chain. Scope and application The PPN covers major central government contracts with a value of £5 million plus yearly (excluding VAT). It applies to frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems to the extent that authorities expect to call off in-scope contracts from them.