Sue Arrowsmith contributes to the Government of Bahrain's anti-corruption week

Professor Sue Arrowsmith KC (hon) recently travelled to Bahrain to contribute to a week-long programme on public procurement put on by the International Anti-corruption Academy for the Government of Bahrain. The programme was part of the Government’s broader “anti-corruption” week, which was hosted to coincide with the United Nations international anti-corruption day on 9 December.

Professor Arrowsmith’s two days of presentations on 2-3 December 2023 focused on the UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement, the WTO’s Government Procurement Agreement, and emergency procurement, including lessons from the pandemic, the last drawing on her research for her co-authored book on procurement regulation in the pandemic (Sue Arrowsmith, Luke Butler, Annamaria La Chimia and Christopher Yukins), Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hart; 2021)). The presentations generated much interesting discussion on Bahrain’s approach to emergency procurement in comparison with other countries and international models, with contributions from delegates from the Tender Board, Ministry of Finance and other Government departments, and state-owned companies.