Live and Online – Free
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 – 14:00-17:00 UK
Streaming Online: 9:00-12:00 Eastern US / 15:00-18:00 CET
Join us at King’s College London for a discussion of proposed anti-corruption measures in the United Kingdom’s new procurement regime, post-Brexit.
Topics
- Update on the current proposals
- Remedies — new approaches to bid challenges
- Transparency
- Crisis procurement
- Exclusion and debarment
- Australia-UK free trade agreement
Moderator
- Michael Bowsher QC, Monckton Chambers & Visiting Professor, King’s College London
Panelists
- Sue Hawley, Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption
- Gavin Hayman, Executive Director, Open Contracting Partnership
- Albert Sanchez-Graells, Professor of Economic Law, University of Bristol Law School
- Jessica Tillipman, Assistant Dean for Government Procurement Law Studies & Professorial Lecturer in Law, George Washington University Law School
- Sope Williams-Elegbe, Professor and Head of Department of Mercantile Law, and Deputy Director of the African Procurement Law Unit, Stellenbosch University
- Christopher Yukins, Lynn David Research Professor in Government Procurement Law, George Washington University Law School
Registration is for the online session; health conditions permitting, a limited number of spaces for the in-person session will be made available
Resources
Official
UK Cabinet Office, Transforming Public Procurement (Dec. 2020) (the “Green Paper, calling for public consultation)
UK Cabinet Office, Transforming Government Procurement: Government Response to Consultation (Dec. 2021)
The Queen’s Speech (May 10, 2022) (announcing new legislation)
UK Government resource page on new procurement legislation.
UK Government Cost Impact Assessment
House of Lords — Collected Materials on Bill
House of Lords — Summary of the Procurement Bill (May 20, 2022)
House of Lords Debate (Second Reading of the Bill) (May 25, 2022)
Academic/COMMENTARY
Sue Arrowsmith, Constructing Rules on Exclusions (Debarment) Under a Post-Brexit Regime on Public Procurement: A Preliminary Analysis (July 24, 2020), https://ssrn.com/abstract=3659909
Nigel Boardman, Review of Government Procurement in the COVID-19 Pandemic (May 2021) (independent report published by UK Cabinet Office)
Alison Jones, Combatting Corruption and Collusion in UK Public Procurement: Proposals for Post-Brexit Reform, 84 Modern L. Rev. 667 (July 2021), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12626
Albert Sanchez-Graells, UK Procurement Law Reform: Queen’s Speech Update (May 10, 2022).
Albert Sanchez-Graells, Initial comments on the UK’s Procurement Bill: A lukewarm assessment (May 2021)
Jessica Tillipman & Samantha Block, Canada’s Integrity Regime: The Corporate Grim Reaper, 53 Geo. Wash. Int’l L. Rev. 475 (2022), https://ssrn.com/abstract=4081297
King’s College, London / GW Law on Exclusion and Debarment (March 2019)
Open Contracting Partnership, Mythbusting Confidentiality in Public Contracting
John Pachter, Christopher Yukins & Jessica Tillipman, U.S. Debarment: An Introduction (discussion draft 24 February 2019), published in Cambridge Handbook of Compliance (Cambridge University Press, Daniel Sokol & Benjamin van Rooij eds.).
UK Anti-Corruption Coalition, Our Ten-Point Improvement Plan for the UK Procurement Bill (May 2021)
Christopher Yukins & Michal Kania, Suspension and Debarment in the U.S. Government: Comparative Lessons for the EU’s Next Steps in Procurement, 19-2 UrT 47 (2019), https://ssrn.com/abstract=3422499
