Procurement Act 2023 compliance support for contracting authorities
The new public procurement regime changes how you tender, publish and manage contracts. We help contracting authorities and regulated buyers get ready and stay compliant. Led by Tom Evans, a certified Procurement Act 2023 practitioner.
What is the Procurement Act 2023?
The Procurement Act 2023 is the law that reforms public procurement in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It replaces the previous EU-derived regulations with a single regime focused on transparency, value for money, and consistent, fair treatment of suppliers across the public sector.
For contracting authorities, this is not a light-touch update. The Act introduces new transparency notices across the whole contract lifecycle, a single competitive flexible procedure, a central debarment list, and stronger duties around contract management and supplier performance. The way you plan, run and record a procurement all change, and the regulators expect you to evidence it.
Our Procurement Act 2023 compliance support gets you ready and keeps you compliant. We assess where you are against the new rules, update your policies, processes and templates, set up the transparency and notice obligations, and train your team so the regime is understood and applied, not just acknowledged in a memo.
Why the new regime catches authorities out
The biggest risk is treating the Act as a documentation exercise. Teams update a policy, file it, and carry on buying the way they always have. Then a live procurement hits the new transparency obligations, a notice is missed or published late, a decision cannot be evidenced, and the authority is exposed to challenge. The rules are more demanding on record keeping and consistency than many buyers expect. Capacity is the other issue. Procurement teams are already stretched, and learning a new regime while running live tenders is a lot to absorb. Without specialist support, authorities either over-engineer their response, slowing everything down, or under-prepare and carry compliance risk into every award.
What getting it right protects
Compliance under the Procurement Act 2023 is not just box-ticking. Done properly, it protects the authority from challenge, reputational damage and wasted procurement effort.
Reduced challenge risk
Fair, evidenced and consistent decisions reduce the risk of supplier challenge and the cost and delay that comes with it.
Audit confidence
A clear record of notices, decisions and contract management means you can evidence compliance whenever it is examined.
Faster, cleaner tenders
Updated templates and a clear procedure mean teams run compliant procurements without reinventing the process each time.
What our Procurement Act 2023 support covers
Delivered as a full readiness programme or as targeted support on the specific areas where you need it.
Readiness Assessment
A clear gap analysis of your current policies, procedures and systems against the requirements of the new regime.
Policy and Process Alignment
Updated procurement policies, procedures and decision-making processes that meet the Act’s requirements in practice.
Transparency and Notices
Setup and guidance for the new notice obligations across the contract lifecycle, so nothing is missed or published late.
Tender Templates and Documents
Refreshed tender documents and templates aligned to the competitive flexible procedure and new evaluation duties.
Supplier and Contract Governance
Stronger contract management and supplier performance processes to meet the Act’s ongoing oversight duties.
Team Training
Practical training for procurement and budget-holder teams so the new regime is understood and applied with confidence.
A four-stage engagement process
Whether you need full readiness support or help on a single live procurement, the structure is the same so you always know what is being delivered next.
Discover
We assess your current procurement against the Act and identify the gaps that carry the most risk.
Design
We update policies, processes, templates and notice obligations so they meet the new regime in practice.
Deliver
We embed the changes and, where needed, support live procurements to make sure they run compliantly.Embed
We train your team and hand over with clear guidance, so compliance holds without ongoing reliance on us.
Due diligence with commercial judgement
A due diligence report is only useful if someone can read the risk and tell you what to do about it. We bring procurement judgement, not just a checklist, so you get a clear view of the risk and a practical recommendation, not a pile of data to interpret yourself
- Certified practitioner Tom Evans is a certified Procurement Act 2023 practitioner, so you get current, specialist knowledge of the regime.
- Public sector delivery experience We have delivered procurement for contracting authorities and regulated buyers, not just advised from outside.
- Proportionate compliance e help you meet the rules without over-engineering, so compliance does not grind your tenders to a halt.
- CIPS-qualified leadership Founder Tom Evans holds MCIPS designation. CIPS Professional Ethics certified. Backed by Chamber of Commerce membership.
- Practical, not theoretical We deliver updated templates, processes and training your team can use immediately.
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