The Public Procurement Law Association is pleased to invite you to a webinar on "Public procurement in the UK – has Brexit provoked any (substantial) changes?", which will be held on 22 April 2021 at 1:00 p.m. BST / 2 p.m. CEST.
Brexit is a massive social, economic and also legal challenge. Public procurement has been one of the heavily influenced sectors. We have the privilege of hosting Professor Sue Arrowsmith who has been deeply involved in the recent proposals for changes within the public procurement system in UK in the new era. Please join our webinar and stay updated.
The meeting will be held in English.
Webinar agenda:
- Public procurement in the UK after Brexit: award procedures and remedies
- the current situation
- the proposals for change in the Government’s December 2020 Green Paper
- The status of EU and third country contractors in the UK: legal rights and the situation in practice
- above EU/GPA threshold contracts
- below threshold contracts
Speaker: Professor Sue Arrowsmith QC (hon), BA, D Jur, MCIPS, Professor Emerita, School of Law, University of Nottingham
Moderator: Wojciech Hartung, PhD, member of the Public Procurement Law Association
About the Speaker:
Professor Sue Arrowsmith QC (hon) is Professor Emerita at the University of Nottingham. She has a B.A. (first class hons.) from Oxford University and a D.Jur from Osgoode Hall Law School and is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (MCIPS).
In 2007 she was awarded the CIPS Swinbank Medal for thought innovation in purchasing and supply and in 2019 was made an honorary Queens Counsel (QC) in recognition of her significant contribution to the development of the law of England and Wales in the field of public procurement.
She has been instrumental reforming public procurement rules and was a member of the UK’s Procurement Transformation Advisory Panel, advising on the development of the Government’s 2020 Green Paper, Transforming Public Procurement. She is also a member of the Government’s its Thematic Working Group on Procurement advising on public procurement rules in trade agreements and a Member of the Advisory Committee for the Independent Review of Criminal Legal Aid. She has been a member of the UNCITRAL Procurement Experts Group, the World Bank International Advisory Group on Procurement, (for nearly 20 years) the European Commission's independent Advisory Committee on procurement, and an Expert with the International Partnership against Corruption in Sport (IPACS), Taskforce 1. She has also been consultant for the UK, UN, WTO, OECD, EU, European Central Bank, ILO and the Law Commission of England and Wales.
Her publications have been extensively cited by courts around the world. Her many books include (most recently) The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement (3rd ed. 2014 (Vol.1) and 2018 (vol.2)), which was described in 2018 by the domestic High Court as “the leading academic authority” and “highly persuasive” for the courts in making decisions in this field.
Date: April 22nd, 1.00-2.30 p.m. BST (2.00-3.30 p.m. CEST)
Registration
The meeting will be held in English on the Zoom platform. Participation in the webinar is free of charge.
