The biggest overhaul in the history of Poland’s Public Procurement Law entered into force on 28 July 2016. Despite the passage of time, major issues connected with the practical application of the new regulations continue to arise. It can be ...

Introduction In a recent judgment on an application to vary consent orders relating to the establishment of a confidentiality ring (Bombardier Transportation UK Limited v Merseytravel [2017] EWHC 726 (TCC)), the court decided that despite some conce...

On 21 July the Technology and Construction Court handed down judgment in relation to two applications made in the case of Perinatal Institute v Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership. This interesting judgment highlights two potential pitfalls f...

The 2017 edition of the Getting the Deal Through: Public Procurement is now live. The Polish chapter has been developed by Tomasz Zalewski, head of the public procurement team at Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland. The contributing editor of the Guide...

MLS (Overseas) Limited v The Secretary of State for Defence [2017] EWHC 3389 (TCC) Summary In a recent judgment following a challenge to a competitive procurement process run by the Ministry of Defence (“MoD”) (MLS (Overseas) Limited v T...

Introduction Relevant facts The Court’s decision Whether the Remedies Directive permits the imposition of conditions for claiming damages Clarifying the burden of proof when claiming damages for loss of profit Grounds on which a contracting...

The 2018 edition of the Getting the Deal Through: Public Procurement is now live. The contributing editor of the Guide is Totis Kotsonis, competition lawyer and head of procurement at Eversheds Sutherland. The publication contains expert local insig...

In its Faraday decision the Court of Appeal has set aside a concluded land development agreement between a local authority and a developer for having been concluded in breach of procurement legislation. This is the first time that an English court h...

We have contributed to the The Public Procurement and Government Contracts guide published by Chambers and Partners. It provides expert legal commentary on key issues for businesses. The publication covers the important developments in the...

The 2019 edition of the Chambers Public Procurement and Government Contracts is now live. The contributing editor of the Guide is Dr Totis Kotsonis, competition lawyer and head of procurement at Eversheds Sutherland.   Read the Introduction pie...

Witold Slawinski, head of tech & industrial engineering practice, authored an article for AmCham Quarterly. It is devoted to the recent changes to the Polish public procurement law. Read the full article >...

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Witold Slawinski, head of our tech & engineering team, contributed to the guide "Public Procurment 2019" - expert local insight into public procurement procedures in 34 jurisdictions, addressing such crucial topics as: legislative framework, app...

The new thresholds which come into effect on 1 January 2020 for the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, Concessions Contracts Regulations 2016 and the Defence and Security Public Procurement Regulations 2011 have...

The European Commission has revised the thresholds relating to the award procedures of public contracts and concession agreements by means of four separate Commission Delegated Regulations, adopted on 30 October 2019, which entered into force on 1 J...

The Royal Decree of 14 January 2013 provides in its Article 38/9 an opportunity for revision of procurement documents during the performance of a public procurement contract, where unforeseeable circumstances arise for the contractor. (1) The said R...

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Public sector bodies face many challenges as a result of the outbreak of coronavirus.  Contracting Authorities may need to procure goods, services or works urgently to deal with these challenges.  Challenges caused by the outbreak may be e...

As part of the UK Governments’ ongoing programme to implement the European Union’s Fifth Money Laundering Directive (5MLD) in UK law, the FCA will begin supervising Anti Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) co...

TBD (Owen Holland) Ltd v Simons & Ors [2020] EWHC 30 (Ch) Background A search order is one of the most draconian orders that the English courts can make, allowing an applicant – where there is a real possibility that a respondent may destroy o...

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Parliamentary approval delayed to 2014 Provisional agreement between the EU Council, Commission and Parliament was reached back in July 2013 on the draft text of three new EU public procurement directives but these draft directives are still awaitin...

A quick update on the progress of the new Directives. It is anticipated they will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 28 March 2014, meaning that they will then come into force on 17 April 2014. Following the Directives com...

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On 17 July 2017, a new Appendix H to the Technology and Construction Court Guide was published which provides guidance on procedures for public procurement cases (the “Guide”). Although this detailed procedural guidance is likely to prove usefu...

The establishment of more open public procurement systems, that is, procurement systems which offer foreign suppliers access to the award of public contracts on the basis of no less favourable terms than to domestic suppliers, constitutes an essenti...

Following the June 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, the UK government triggered article 50 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union on 29 March 2017, thereby commencing the two-year formal process that will ultim...

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Since April 26, 2019, contractors, to whom a public contract or concession has been awarded, have the possibility to issue an electronic invoice and transmit it to the contracting authority. This novelty is the result of the transposition of the Eur...

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Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Partner in the fields of data protection and IT law. As an attorney and 2012 certified Senior Project Manager IPMA Level B, Markus Naef advises companies on legal safeguards and ex...

By Tim Brown and Wiwat Peerapatanapokin HONOLULU (September 17, 2019)—In 2018, roughly 6 million people were living with HIV in Asia and the Pacific, and 310,000 were newly infected, according to UNAIDS estimates. Despite these troubling numbers, financial support for the fight against AIDS is stagnant, and international resources for HIV programs in the region are declining. Given the continued HIV infection levels and limited funds for halting the epidemic, it is more important than ever for prevention efforts to achieve maximum impact with the resources available. This means that programs need to target the key populations most at risk of contracting HIV. In Asia, these key populations are female sex workers and their clients, people who inject drugs, and men who have sex with men....

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The decision to shelve detailed advice from the nation’s top disease control experts for reopening communities during the coronavirus pandemic came from the highest levels of the White House.