On July 1, 2026, the Act on Accelerating the Award of Public Contracts—the Public Procurement Acceleration Act, for short—entered into force. A key change is Section 97a of the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (GWB), which separates the principle of awarding contracts in lots from the previous Section 97(4) GWB and regulates it independently—though this is not a major breakthrough. Five points from KPMG Law expert Jan T. Tenner show why practitioners can still work effectively with it .
“The specific justification under public procurement law must still be based on the specific circumstances of the project in order to limit the risk of review proceedings or the recovery of funds under grant regulations.”
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