# Public Procurement 2025: Shaping New Law into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients

> Solution-focused, Court-Proven, Answers to 8 Thorny Questions: Directly from Top-rated KCs, Judges and Solicitors

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Friday, 14 November 2025, 9:30AM to 5:00PM (registration from 9:00AM)
- On-demand: 24 November 2025 until 30 March 2026
- Venue: The Landmark, 222 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 6JQ
- 6 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £199.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/procurement25

## Programme

- Chair's introduction: Public Procurement Law: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by Ciara Kennedy-Loest, Hogan Lovells
- Panel: Christopher Vajda KC; Dr Totis Kotsonis
- Framework Conditions: How far can you go in tightening or adding to participation conditions at the call-off stage under a framework, without breaching the framework’s original structure or legal principles?
  - Answered by Valentina Sloane KC
- Poor Performance: How do you build a case for excluding a supplier for poor performance? What level of poor performance would have to be demonstrated, and would it need to be relevant to the contract being procured?
  - Answered by Lord Banner KC
- Evaluator's Judgment: How much leeway do suppliers have to challenge an evaluator’s judgment in applying the assessment methodology to the award criteria?
  - Answered by Joseph Barrett KC
- Refining Criteria: How do you design a process that uses different criteria or approaches at different stages, while staying compliant with both s20 (down-selection) and s24 (refinement)? What is the interplay between s.24 and s.31 in this context?
  - Answered by Kate Gough, Freshfields
- Automatic suspension: To what extent will the new s.102 test for the automatic suspension produce substantially different outcomes to those based on American Cyanamid? What will count and sway the court?
  - Answered by Sarah Hannaford KC
- Have Regard: When can you use the “have regard to” section 12 objectives, or other problems with the process, for a procurement challenge or judicial review?
  - Answered by Nigel Giffin KC
- Dynamic markets: Where are the legal and practical uncertainties around dynamic markets under PA23  - and to what extent are they vulnerable to challenge?
  - Answered by Ewan West KC
- Clarification from the Courts: What aspects of the Procurement Act require clarification and what is in the pipeline?
  - Answered by The Panel

## How to book

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