The EU Commission publishes a notice on how to fight collusion in public procurement and on guidance on how to apply the related exclusion ground

On 18 March 2021, the Official Journal of the European Union published a European Commission (Commission) Notice on “tools to fight collusion in public procurement and on guidance on how to apply the related exclusion ground” (see, attached copy; the Notice). The Notice develops the tools which the Commission announced in its Communication COM(2017) 572 entitled “Making public procurement work in and for Europe” (available here) with a view to assisting EU Member States and their contracting authorities in tackling the issue of collusion in public procurement. The