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The Procurement Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and will “go live” on 28 October 2024.

The final text of the Procurement Act 2023 is published on the UK Parliament website here or you can download a copy here.

The Cabinet Office is providing a learning and development programme. Further information is available here.

The first training product, known as Knowledge Drops, can be accessed here.

Part 1 of the consultation ran from 19 June to 28 July 2023. This part of the consultation focussed on areas of the Procurement Act 2023 which require lists, calculations or further definitions. The draft regulations consulted on are called ‘The Procurement Act 2023 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2024’. Further information on Part 1 is available here. 

Part 2 of the consultation is running from 17 July to 25 August 2023.  This part of the consultation mainly focuses on the transparency provisions in the Procurement Act 2023. The draft regulations being consulted on are called the  ‘The Procurement (Transparency) Regulations 202X’. Further information on Part 2, together with the Government response to the consultation, is available here. 

The latest information and guidance from the Cabinet Office is here. 

Contracting authorities, utilities and suppliers should all be taking action to prepare for the forthcoming changes. CMS procurement experts are on hand to help navigate this process. 
Please email the CMS team at procurementcube@cms-cmno.com. 

To support stakeholders in their preparation for the Act, the government is publishing a suite of technical guidance documents that address all aspects of the new regime. These are available here.

As procurement is a devolved matter, the Scottish procurement rules are largely unaffected by the reform of the procurement rules that apply in the rest of the UK.    

The Procurement Act 2023 contains provisions intended to ensure that Scottish contracting authorities can access frameworks and dynamic markets established by contracting authorities in the rest of the UK. 

Please email the CMS team at procurementcube@cms-cmno.com.