Post-Brexit Challenges to Procurement Processes – Fair and Fast

Post-Brexit Challenges to Procurement Processes – Fair and Fast

The Government’s Green Paper on ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ post-Brexit purports to overhaul the outdated public procurement regime in the UK. Whilst many of Britain’s public procurement obligations remain relatively similar under the Government Procurement Agreement (‘GPA’) and EU-UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (‘TCA’), Chapter 7 of the Green Paper outlines the Government’s plans to redesign the process of challenging public procurement so that it is fair and fast. This article provides an overview of these proposals.