{"id":148859,"date":"2025-02-24T10:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T10:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=148859"},"modified":"2025-08-07T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:07:10","slug":"procurement-act-2023-comes-into-effect-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/procurement-act-2023-comes-into-effect-today\/148859\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Public sector procurement undergoes many changes today as the updated legislation comes into effect<\/h2>\n<p>The Procurement Act 2023 changes the process of procurement, attempting to streamline it.<\/p>\n<p>The new act is intended to give more aid to suppliers, particularly SMEs, start-ups, and social enterprises.<\/p>\n<h3>The act makes changes to frameworks<\/h3>\n<p>The Procurement Act 2023 brings the following changes into effect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Changes the bidding process to make it more simple through more ease of bidding, negotiation, and working in partnership with the public sector, with a new \u2018competitive flexible\u2019 procedure<\/li>\n<li>Opens up commercial frameworks allowing prospective suppliers more access and not being shut out for long periods<\/li>\n<li>Removes bureaucratic barriers for smaller businesses and VCSEs allowing them to compete for more contracts, and strengthening provisions for payment throughout the supply chain. Payment terms can now be 30-days on more public sector contracts<\/li>\n<li>Public bodies are now required to provide consistent feedback for suppliers for public bodies to provide bid assessments for final tenders<\/li>\n<li>Launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-tender.service.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Find a Tender<\/a> \u2013 a central digital platform that allows for easier contract bidding, allowing you to register and store your business details to use on multiple bids, and making procurement opportunities more visible<\/li>\n<li>The Procurement Review Unit has been established, being responsible for oversight of public procurement and engaging with contracting authorities across sectors and suppliers to raise standards in public procurement<\/li>\n<li>The PRU will also build on the current Public Procurement Review Service (PPRS) to allow concerns with public procurement to be addressed, specifically with matters of procedure and late payment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The industry has been looking forward to the Procurement Act 2023<\/h3>\n<p>In April last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/roofing-contractors-survey-late-payments\/139134\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roofing contractors survey<\/a> highlighted several issues that many contractors are concerned by.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key issues was sustainability in procurement considerations, showing a gap between rhetoric and reality with a lack of a cohesive approach among members\u2019 clients.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/getting-social-value-front-foot-ahead-februarys-procurement-act\/145313\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PBC Today in November last year<\/a>, Catherine Manning described how an updated bidding system would benefit social value in firms, warning against over reliance on apprenticeships as an \u2018easy win\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Manning wrote: \u201cApprenticeships have hugely tangible benefits, but they are not the only social value path. The decision on what to do should be based on needs and potential for greatest impact, and that needs to be better determined by data and not the default solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eddie Weir PCIAT, president of CIAT, said: \u201cWe are pleased that, after a great deal of work by many people across UK Industry and in parliament, and after a change of government, the Procurement Act is now coming into force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective public procurement at its best can drive both social and economic value. With our built environment badly in need of regeneration, public procurement can deliver the next generation of high-quality, sustainable and well-designed schools and hospitals, libraries, and leisure centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are particularly pleased that the act goes further in facilitating SME participation, mandating simplified contract management and payment processes, and focusing on quality rather than favouring the cheapest bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImportantly, the Act also makes clear that any conditions on participation must be proportionate means of ensuring that a supplier has the technical ability to perform a contract, and where these conditions include requiring a specific qualification, equivalent qualifications must also be accepted. This provides an important foundation for fair procurement of services provided by Chartered Architectural Technologists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will of course be challenges as the Act is implemented. CIAT will continue to work with individual contracting bodies and government to embed fair procurement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexi Markham, commercial partner at Gowling WLG, said: &#8220;The Act represents the biggest shake-up of our procurement laws for over thirty years. Until now, the existing procurement regime in the UK has been derived from EU rules on public procurement, dating from 2014; before that we also had a procurement rulebook derived from the previous EU law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Act will consolidate various existing public procurement rules into one regime based on national priorities and certain objectives seen as key by the Government \u2013 for example, overcoming the barriers faced by smaller businesses to taking part in public procurement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the changes are significant, will open up new opportunities for greater competition, and provide scope for a much more flexible procurement process and approach to contract management. And with certain sector-specific provisions made and exclusions applied, it will be important for organisations to determine how the Act will apply to them and ensure they are well equipped to respond.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More information about the Procurement Review Unit can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/procurement-review-unit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be found here.<\/a> Further guidance for suppliers has been published and can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/information-and-guidance-for-suppliers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect today, making several changes in an effort to streamline the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":148860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[276,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-148859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-planning-construction-news","8":"tag-government","9":"tag-procurement"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect today, making several changes in an effort to streamline the process\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/procurement-act-2023-comes-into-effect-today\/148859\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Procurement Act 2023 comes into effect today, making several changes in an effort to streamline the process\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/procurement-act-2023-comes-into-effect-today\/148859\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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