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“ public contracts ” means contracts for pecuniary interest concluded in writing between one or more economic operators and one or more contracting authorities and having as their object the...
- 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 The reforms proposed within the Procurement Act are important, because they will shake up our outdated procurement system, so that every pound goes further for our communities and public services.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...
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 10 October 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Revised...
UK government public procurement policy. These new rules are applicable to below threshold contracts (see Practice note, Additional requirements for below and above threshold contracts (Part 4, PCR 2015)). Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) While it was a member of the EU, and during the transition period, the UK was part of the World Trade
Key point here is that a change of contractor is permitted by reason of structural changes during the term of the contract, including internal reorganisations as well as takeovers/mergers. It is not a carte blanche for the contracting authority to go out and choose a replacement contractor.
2 days ago · For the public sector to invest wisely it must have procurement processes in place to find and deliver value for money. The new post-Brexit Procurement Act 2023 is important in achieving this. In this Monday Interview, our Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Stephen Millard, sits down with Economist Ed Cornforth to talk about what public procurement is, and what the new law entails.
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On 15 December 2020, the UK government published its eagerly anticipated Green Paper on "Transforming Public Procurement".1 The Green Paper sets out the government's plans to reform UK public procurement law, now that the UK is no longer subject to EU law.
