Abstract

The public procurement law doctrine has been calling for a move towards professionalisation for many years, and one of the essential elements of public procurement procedures is the appeals procedure. Under the provisions of the new Public Procurement Law, it is not required that a professional authorised representative, namely an advocate or attorney-at-law, appear before the Chamber, which may result in lowering the level of this procedure. The argument supporting the introduction of a provision into the new PPL whereby only advocates and attorneys-at-law may act as authorised representatives before the Chamber stems from the fact that proceedings before the Chamber are treated as first-instance proceedings, which may be continued before the Regional Court and the Supreme Court, in which only professional authorised representatives may act.