In previous blogs (see here), we provided an overview of the Procurement Bill (the “Bill“) and the extent to which it will change the public procurement regime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In this blog, we consider the provisions of the Bill relating to delegated powers.  This may seem like an esoteric subject of …

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Public procurement reform – ‘Crisis? what crisis’ On 6 December 2021, the Cabinet Office published the Government’s response to its consultation on proposed reforms to English procurement law. In our most recent blog (“Procurement Challenges – the future”), we considered the Government’s proposals to reform the procurement remedies regime. In this blog, we consider an …

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On 6 December 2021, the Cabinet Office published its much-anticipated response to its consultation on the 2020 green paper, “Transforming Public Procurement”. Over the next few weeks, DLA Piper will publish a series of posts considering in detail the proposed changes to procurement. In this post, we summarise the response and give our initial views …

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Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, on 1 January 2021 the transition period will come to an end. From that date onwards, the UK will have severed its direct ties with the EU procurement law regime and the UK will, as a consequence, have far greater autonomy to regulate its own domestic procurement …

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