UK Public Procurement – Increasing Risks for Cartel Participants

Risks are increasing for those involved in cartel activity in the UK and in particular bid-rigging in public procurement. The UK Government has recently introduced to Parliament the Procurement Bill 2022 which includes a new exclusion from public procurement and debarment regime for cartelists. If enacted, the legislation will mean that companies that engage in price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging or other cartel activities could face mandatory exclusion by a contracting authority from publ