Competition Law & Procurement: Ensuring Compliance in Public Tenders

Introduction

In this webinar you will learn about how competition law is relevant to tenders for public contracts and the procurement law implications for anti-competitive activity. This is relevant both to businesses seeking to win public contracts, whether under the general, health, defence or utility public procurement rules but also to those offering contracts under public procurement rules.

This webinar will provide you with the information you need to understand what is involved in the kinds of competition law infringements that are most common in these types of markets, how the Competition and Markets Authority is policing these markets, what will be required of public procurers going forwards under the current procurement rules.

The webinar will provide practical advice based on examples from experience and the latest caselaw on how to the mitigate risks, both for contractors and procurers. It is designed for inhouse counsel, competition and public procurement lawyers advising on tendering, bid compliance and anti-competitive practices.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Relevant competition law principles, particularly in relation to cartel activity
• The procurement consequences of competition law infringements, including exclusion and debarment
• The assessments that will need to be carried out by procurers where bidders have been found to have infringed competition law and whether they have done enough to 'self clean'
• When procurers will need to carry out their own competition law assessments
• How bidders and procurers can best mitigate the risks of procurement challenges in connection with competition law issues

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Thursday 26th March 2026

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