Public Procurement

Government must get a grip on conflicts of interest in public procurement or risk losing the UKs reputation as a fair place to do business

• Dr Daniel Beizsley

Last week’s much anticipated National Audit Office report into the government’s handling of emergency procurement during COVID-19 effectively corroborated widespread allegations of cronyism in the dishing out of PPE contracts....

Cleaning up the audit sector: why the government should consider banning Ernst & Young from public contracts

16th November  On Friday 13th November, Spotlight on Corruption wrote to the government’s procurement body, the Crown Commercial Service, asking it to review whether the accountancy firm Ernst & Young...

Banning corrupt companies from public contracts

What’s the issue? Corruption is particularly common in public procurement. Of the foreign bribery cases prosecuted under the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, 57% involved bribes to obtain public contracts. The problem exists...