Why has the Green Paper been produced?
The Green Paper is an ambitious drive from Government to achieve reform across Public Sector Procurement in the UK. Post the transition period of Brexit it is seen as an opportunity to overhaul the current procurement regime and provide a system more streamlined in approach that supports rather than hinders suppliers offering innovative solutions to improve public services.
With £290bn spent on public procurement last year; the transition of Brexit and now with the Government needing to play its part in the UK’s economy recovery, the Green Paper comes at an opportune time for Government to forge ahead and make good on its promise of supporting SME’s and make public sector contracts easier to access.
Formal consultation commenced in December 2020 and is due to close at 11.45am on 10th March 2021.
The Green Paper was the topic of a recent webinar we ran, hosted by Craig Millhouse (Managing Director at CA), Lee Hasell (Managing Partner at CA), Matt Mitchell (Lead Senior Consultant), and Louise Bennett (Senior Associate at Browne Jacobson). If you’d like to know more, you can watch the webinar above and download the slides below.
There are many elements to the proposed reforms, and we see these are being two-fold:
1. To streamline the current procurement procedures down from 7 to 3 elements – these being:
2. To introduce transparency to public sector data by:
If you’d like to read more on the Green Paper, our public sector legal partners Browne Jacobson who are specialist in public sector law have further elaborated around these core elements of the 78-page Green paper document