Every year the UK government spends billions of pounds purchasing goods, works and services that are vital to growth, development, health and social welfare. Performed well, public procurement helps a government to nurture competition, save money, and provide better public services. These benefits will not be reaped, however, if the system is not protected adequately from distortion by corruption and/or supplier collusion. This paper concludes that additional measures are required to protect the integrity of procurement processes in England & Wales through improving the distinct public procurement, anti-corruption and competition regimes and uniting them around a cohesive strategy. It advocates policy coordination and enhancements designed to yield major benefits to public procurement as the UK seeks to develop its own policies post-Brexit and to grapple with the demands that the Covid-19 pandemic has placed on public purchasing and the public purse.

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打击英国公共采购中的腐败和勾结：英国退欧后改革的提案

英国政府每年花费数十亿英镑购买对增长、发展、健康和社会福利至关重要的商品、工作和服务。表现良好的公共采购有助于政府培育竞争、节省资金并提供更好的公共服务。然而，如果系统没有得到充分保护，免受腐败和/或供应商勾结造成的扭曲，这些好处将无法获得。本文得出的结论是，需要采取额外措施，通过改进独特的公共采购、反腐败和竞争制度，并围绕一个有凝聚力的战略将它们联合起来，以保护英格兰和威尔士采购流程的完整性。