UK Procurement Law After Brexit

Gowling WLG partner Robert Breedon offers his insight to In-procurement magazine into what UK procurement law looks like after Brexit. He discusses the options available to the UK after Brexit and the significance the vote could have on procurement law.

Following the UK's vote to leave the European Union (EU) in June, there is much debate on whether the Government will pursue a 'soft' or 'hard' Brexit. The approach adopted will, of course, be politically driven but the chosen route will impact on a number of areas currently subject to EU-based legislation including the UK's current public procurement laws. It is now very well documented that the process surrounding the UK's exit from the EU is likely to take up to two years from the triggering of Article 50. For the short term therefore, we are unlikely to see any significant change in our public procurement laws: the current suite of Regulations comprising the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the Utilities