United Kingdom: Government Contracts, Procurement & PPP

The Cabinet Office has published Procurement Policy Note 026, introducing a revised Social Value Model that fundamentally redefines how central government procurement evaluates social value - shifting from broad environmental and community concepts to a laser focus on creating good British jobs, skills development, and opportunities for people facing employment barriers.

Ofgem published its Curate consultation on 29 July 2026. It proposes two significant reforms for in-scope data centres seeking a grid connection in Great Britain...

Mounting geopolitical tensions and heightened security concerns have highlighted the need for greater scale, resilience and autonomy in Europe’s defence sector. This has prompted a fundamental policy shift.

The UK Cabinet Office's fifth Annual Report on the National Security and Investment Act 2021 reveals a striking paradox: while the number of transactions reviewed under the regime continues to grow rapidly, the proportion of deals ultimately subject to intervention has fallen to its lowest level since the NSIA entered into force. This raises critical questions for dealmakers about whether the mandatory notification regime is capturing an increasing number of deals that pose little or no national security co

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Reforms have been proposed which signal the next step in Great Britain's (GB) evolving connections reform process and a more interventionist and strategic approach to demand connections. More proposals are expected in the second half of the year.

As part of our Resilient Infrastructure series, we sat down with Andy Cox, Head of Energy Transition at insurance group Howden, to discuss the industry's role in building assets that last.

With trillions of dollars required to meet net-zero goals, states, industry leaders and investors are placing strategic bets on the emerging technologies touted as game-changers in the battle against climate change.

From renewing existing infrastructure to embedding resilience into new assets, our series assesses the commercial realities, technical challenges and regulatory hurdles facing the sector – and the risks in failing to act.