Information Notice

We recently mentioned some upcoming changes regarding the new UK Trade Agreements with Australia and New Zealand. These legislative changes are now live.

These changes will update guidance on the following areas:

• using PINs (Prior Information Notice) as a call for competition (any references to such are now being removed)
• estimating the prices of contracts and 
• terminating contracts

Please refer to Scottish Public Procurement Note Public procurement – Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreements (SPPN 1/2023) for more information on these changes.

In response to feedback requesting the Single Procurement Document (SPD) process to be streamlined, the following updates have been made:

• the SPD Word document has been updated to version 1.3 to remove the guidance sections at the beginning of the document.  Please note there have been no changes to the SPD questions/the remainder of the SPD questionnaire
• guidance within the Procurement Journey has been refreshed, and can be found as follows:

Single Procurement Document (SPD) | Procurement Journey

Single Procurement Document - SPD | Procurement Journey

Single Procurement Document (SPD) | Procurement Journey

SPD Documents | Procurement Journey

SPD FAQs | Procurement Journey

• Systems e.g. Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) have been updated with the above changes

Places are available to book for the free Scottish Government online workshops on how to use the PCS SPD module.

SPPN 2/2023: Public Procurement - Annual Procurement Reports for 2022-23 and 2023-2024

SPPN 2/2023 provides information on how your organisation should notify Scottish Ministers of the publication of your annual procurement report for financial years 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024.  This includes information on submitting a completed Annex A  template.

Please direct any enquiries on this to Scottishprocurement@gov.scot

The Procurement Journey guidance will be updated in the coming weeks.