Procurement

Sharpe Pritchard’s Procurement Working Group has recently responded to the Government’s Green Paper Transforming Public Procurement, which outlines the Government’s proposals for reforming what it describes as the ‘outdated’ public procurement regime following the UK’s exit from the EU. The proposals aim to remove the current process driven procedures and create a streamlined and flexible…

Introduction The coming together of these two elements in the procurement of public contracts under The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (“PCR” ) was recently considered in Aquilla Heywood Ltd v. Local Pensions Partnership Administration Ltd [2021] EWHC 114. This decision is likely to remain relevant after the PCR rides into the sunset as the recently…