Sheffield City Council - Transforming Public Procurement: The Procurement Act 2023

24th January 2025

On 24 February 2025, the rules that shape how public bodies buy goods and services will change.

The Procurement Act 2023 will introduce measures to improve and streamline the way procurement is done and benefit prospective suppliers of all sizes, particularly small businesses, start-ups and social enterprises.

If your business supplies goods, works or services to organisations in the public or utility sectors – or hopes to do so in the future – you need to know about the changes. This includes supplying government Departments, the NHS, local authorities, universities, schools, social housing organisations, police and fire brigades and utility companies.

Information and Guidance for Businesses

You can find out more information and access guidance for suppliers and business owners here. This information has been provided by Cabinet Office to help you prepare and to support you as you begin to do business under the new regime.

If you haven’t already, sign up for regular updates here on Transforming Public Procurement. Cabinet Office will then keep you up to date on the ‘Get Ready’ for go live webinars and the ‘How to’ videos covering how to register on the central digital platform when you want to bid for work under the new regime.

More information will be published on our website too as it becomes available from Cabinet Office. www.sheffield.gov.uk/supplierinformation

If you would like to discuss any aspect of the new Procurement Act, please contact Cabinet Office via the dedicated Transforming Public Procurement helpdesk at: procurement.reform@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Procurement Act 2023: Webinar for Business Owners, Suppliers and Other External Organisations

The Procurement Act 2023 will go live on 24 February 2025 and to support readiness for the new regime, Cabinet Office ran two FREE webinars for business owners, suppliers and other interested parties in January.

These sessions focused primarily on what the key changes are, showed a live demonstration of the central digital platform, and explained how to register on the platform when bidding for future work. Frequently asked questions from the webinar will also be published which will help with your own preparations for ‘go-live’.

Cabinet Office have recorded the sessions and will make a recording available via its webpages for those who were unable to attend.

Future Tender Opportunities with Sheffield City Council

Sheffield City Council advertises all our open tender opportunities on the e-tendering portal YORtender and our above threshold tenders on Find a Tender portal and will continue to do so under the new regime.

Discover how you can register your organisations details for free with these portals to find out about our future tender opportunities, as well as viewing our current contract register and our pipeline of planned procurements over the next 2 to 3 years on our website.

Sheffield City Council – Website Update Survey

Please also see this letter about a short website survey which is currently live. The Commercial team at Sheffield City Council are reviewing the information published about contracts and procurements on our website. We would love to hear from you about the information you would like to access to help shape the content we share.

Please click here to provide your feedback