Professor Sue Arrowsmith made a series of presentations at this year’s Nordic Public Procurement Forum on 9th September 2021. Although held this year online instead of at the usual Copenhagen venue, the event attracted the usual mix of academics, regulators, lawyers and purchasing professionals from across northern Europe.
Professor Arrowsmith made three presentations covering recent regulatory experiences in procurement in the Covid-19 pandemic and recommendations for reform of EU law in the light of the pandemic experience; recent EU case law on public procurement; and the UK’s proposals for post-Brexit procurement reform. The first of these presentations was based on Professor Arrowsmith’s chapter on the EU in the forthcoming book, Public Procurement Regulation in (a) Crisis? Global Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Hart Publishing), which is co-edited by Professor Arrowsmith with Dr Luke Butler and Professor Annamaria La Chimia of the PPRG and Professor Christopher Yukins of George Washington University (more details at https://www.bloomsburyprofessional.com/uk/public-procurement-regulation-in-a-crisis-9781509943050/). Key messages from this presentation were the need for slightly more flexibility - a key message from the book as a whole – including recommendations for a specific “crisis” provision in all the EU procurement Directives, but more consistent and extensive information transparency, including giving consideration to an open contracting approach at EU level - also an important general message from the book.
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