COVID-19: Public procurement measures in Royal Decree-Law 8/2020 and Royal Decree-Law 463/2020
Spain Administrative Law Alert
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing a health emergency that is spreading to the economy and to society at an unaccustomed speed, affecting both production and demand and citizens’ welfare.
To soften the effects that this pandemic and the measures for containing this health crisis are causing, the Spanish government has approved: (i) Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, 2020, declaring a state of emergency to manage the COVID-19 public health crisis (RD 463/2020) (ii) Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of March 17, 2020, on urgent and extraordinary measures to confront the economic and social impact of COVID-19 (RDL 8/2020) and (iii) Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, of March 31, 2020, adopting additional social and economic measures to confront COVID-19 (RDL 11/2020), which makes various amendments to this last royal decree-law and to the public procurement legislation in force.
These decrees have brought important new legislation in the field of public procurement which we explain here.
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