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Public Procurement Global Revolution IV, April 19th-20th 2010: a major international conference under the auspices of the Asia Link programme.  [Click here for more information and bookings.]

The LLM/Diploma/Certificate programme in Public Procurement Law and Policy (Executive Programme): applications are now being considered for 2010. For more information, click here.


The PPRG has received an award of 450 000 Euros from the European Union's Asia Link Programme, as leader of a five member consortium. For news and developments, click here.

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Public Procurement Research Group

The University of Nottingham's Public Procurement Research Group is a global leader in research and teaching on public procurement regulation. It is part of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, which is consistently ranked amongst the leading law schools in the United Kingdom. The School was rated as the 4th best for research out of 67 Law Schools in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (2008) and has a grade of ‘Excellent' for teaching. 

Full-time academic staff of the Group come from all over the world, with current staff hailing from China, Nigeria, Italy and Greece, as well as the UK. Research projects span areas as diverse as EU and WTO procurement law, tied aid procurement, defence procurement, and developing country procurement reform, and the Group works closely with both national governments and international organisations.

The Director of the Group is Professor Sue Arrowsmith, and the Deputy Director is Dr Ping Wang. The work of the Group and of its members is sponsored by Achilles Information and Achilles Group, by Bevan Brittan LLP, and by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply. 


Members of the PPRG, Asia Link and Africa Projects February 2009



Recent Publications



Reform of the
UNCITRAL Model Law
on Procurement		 For the full text access to a selection of recent PPRG works, click here.


Social and
Environmental
Policies in EC
Procurement Law


Public
Procurement
Law Review


The Law of Public
and Utilities
Procurement
(2nd ed.)


Kommunale Wohnungsunternehmen
als öffentliche Auftraggeber im Sinne
der EG-Vergaberichtlinienk


Government
Procurement
in the WTO

News

Updated: 06/11/2009

  • The full conference programme is now available, and bookings now open, for Public Procurement: Global Revolution IV, to be held at the University of Nottingham on April 19th-20th 2010. [more]
  • A new book co-edited by Sue Arrowsmith, Self-Cleaning in Public Procurement Law, has just been published. [more]
  • A new article by Annamaria La Chimia and Sue Arrowsmith in the Journal of International Economic Law examines the hitherto unexplored subject of tied aid under the WTO trade regime. [more]
  • The PPRG offers its congratulations to Colin Maund, CEO of long-term PPRG sponsors The Achilles Group, who has been awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young  UK Entrepreneur of the Year Award® 2009 for IT Services. [more]

Forthcoming Events

  • The conference Public Procurement: Global Revolution IV will be held on 19th-20th April 2010 at the Nottingham University Conference Centre on the University of Nottingham Jubilee campus. [more]
  • A further conference examining the application of the EU and UK procurement rules on competitive dialogue will be held in London on 11 November 2009. [more]
  • Baudouin Heuninckx will speak at the Advanced Conference on Defence & Security Procurement on 17-18 November 2009 in Brussels. [more]
  • Baudouin Heuninckx will speak on 23-24 November 2009 at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) conference on European Defence Procurement in Maastricht. [more]
  • For events scheduled further in the future, please click here.

The PPRG and its members are sponsored by...


The Achilles Group is the leading provider of supplier management information, delivering a wide range of procurement and business solutions to major companies across the globe.


Bevan Brittan is firm of solicitors working at the public and private sector interface.The firm combines diverse public sector experience with strong commercial expertise and is a major force in procurement, PFI, PPP and commercial work.

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) is an international organisation, based in the UK, serving the purchasing and supply profession.  CIPS exists to promote and develop high standards of professional skill, ability and integrity among all those engaged in purchasing and supply chain management. CIPS assists individuals, organisations and the profession as a whole.

Addleshaw Goddard's public and utilities procurement lawyers are market leaders in providing a cradle to grave commercial service covering all aspects of the procurement regime. We are well-known for our cutting-edge solutions to suppliers wanting to contest contract award decisions, and to purchasing authorities defending claims.