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Apr 22, 2024 · Section 9 (light touch contracts) of the Procurement Act defines light touch contracts as contracts wholly or mainly for the supply of services of a kind specified in regulations.
- Introduction
- The Procurement Act 2023 - Summary of Provisions
- Devolved Administrations
- Coverage
- Defence and Security
- Principles and Objectives
- Undertaking A Procurement
- Exclusions and Debarment
- Contract Management
- Transparency Notices
One in every three pounds of public money, some £300 Billion a year, is spent on public procurement. The reforms proposed within the Procurement Act are important, because they will shake up our outdated procurement system, so that every pound goes further for our communities and public services. They will place value for money, public benefit, tra...
This Act includes a number of regulation-making powers which are necessary to ensure that the legislation will continue to facilitate a modern procurement structure for many years to come and will allow us to keep pace with technological advances, new trade agreements and ahead of those who may try to use procurement improperly.
We have delivered this Act with other nations of the United Kingdom. The result is a piece of legislation whose general scope applies to all contracting authorities in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This will ensure contracting authorities and suppliers can benefit from the efficiencies of having a broadly consistent regime operating across t...
Part one of the Act sets out which authorities and contracts the Act applies to. It covers contracts awarded by most central government departments, their arms length bodies and the wider public sector including local government and health authorities. This also includes contracts awarded by utilities companies operating in the water, energy and tr...
This Act consolidates the current procurement regimes and, therefore, extends to defence and security contracts. Defence procurement will benefit from the simplification and increased flexibility of the core regime. There are a limited number of derogations that meet the specific needs of defence and security procurements and will support delivery ...
Part two of the Act is focussed on the principles and objectives that must underlie the awarding of a public contract. Contracting authorities must have regard to delivering value for money, maximising public benefit, transparency and acting with integrity. Integrity must sit at the heart of the process. It means there must be good management, prev...
In Part three, the Act sets out how a contracting authority can undertake a procurement and award a contract. Competition is at the heart of the regime. The Act introduces a new procedure for running a competitive tendering process - the competitive flexible procedure - ensuring for the very first time that contracting authorities can design a comp...
Part three also sets out the circumstances in which a supplier may be excluded from a procurement due to serious misconduct, unacceptably poor performance, or other circumstances which make the supplier unfit to bid for public contracts. Contracting authorities will be able more easily to reject bids from suppliers which pose unacceptable risks. Pa...
The important work on procurement does not stop once a contract has been awarded. Part four of the Act sets out steps that must be taken to manage a contract. This includes the strengthening of rules ensuring that suppliers are paid on time and new requirements to assess and publish information about how suppliers are performing.
Running throughout the Act are requirements to publish notices. These are the foundations for the new standards of transparency which will play such a crucial role in the new regime. Our ambitions are high and we want to ensure that procurement information is publicly available not only to support effective competition, but to provide the public wi...
Apr 22, 2024 · The Act aims to provide a clear and comprehensive set of grounds under which contracts may be modified post-award, to help understand when a contract may be modified, how to make a compliant...
as a public authority in relation to any relevant sub-contract. (11) This Act does not apply to His Majesty acting in his private capacity. (12) In this section— “relevant sub-contract” means a contract substantially for the purpose of performing (or contributing to the pe rformance of) all or any part of the exempted contract;
Oct 26, 2023 · The current public procurement regime — as embodied in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (and its counterparts) — is being replaced this year following the UK’s departure from the EU. Here, Victoria Trigwell outlines what you need to know ahead of the new regime coming into force.
Jan 1, 2024 · Having concluded its passage through Parliament, the Bill was passed into law on 26th October 2023 as the highly anticipated Procurement Act 2023 (the Act). The Act follows an extensive consultation process on procurement reform following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.
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Oct 30, 2023 · The Act extends the implied rights that contracting authorities have to terminate public contracts. The grounds now include where: the contract was awarded or modified in material breach of the Act which could reasonably result in a successful legal challenge;
