Procurement in the time of COVID-19

Albert Sanchez Graells

Procurement in the time of COVID-19

Albert Sanchez Graells^*

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University of Bristol Law School

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Abstract

This piece reflects on the role of public procurement regulation in the face of a situation generating an extremely urgent need for the public sector to buy additional supplies and equipment, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterintuitively, at a time of heightened public expenditure, public procurement rules are ‘deactivated’. That does not mean that unusual procurement mechanism are not ‘activated’, though, as the example of the EU’s Joint Procurement Agreement shows. It also does not mean that ‘reactivating’ public procurement regulation will not present challenges, some of which deserve careful consideration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	81–87
Number of pages	7
Journal	Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
Volume	71
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 22 Apr 2020

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Centre for Global Law and Innovation
Centre for Health, Law and Society
Covid19

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extreme emergency
economic stimulus
public procurement
joint procurement agreement
covid-19
healthcare procurement

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Public Procurement During Emergencies: Expert Report for the UK Covid-19 Public
Sanchez-Graells, A., 4 Mar 2025, London: UK Covid-19 Inquiry. 207 p.
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Procurement in the time of COVID-19

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