Training
Procurement training from practitioners who work under the Act every day.
Procurement Act 2023 compliance, governance and financial controls, and bid and tender excellence, delivered in person, off site, online or as e-learning, for contracting authorities and for suppliers.
Why it matters
The Act changed what a budget holder can sign, what a panel can score and what a board can approve. Everyone who touches spend needs to know which rule they are applying.
The modules
Three recurring programmes, and bespoke courses built on them.
| Module | Who it is for | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Procurement Act 2023 compliance | Procurement teams, budget holders, legal and finance, senior leaders | Scope and thresholds, contracting authority status and exempted contracts. The notice family from pipeline to payment. The competitive flexible procedure, frameworks, dynamic markets and direct award. Most advantageous tender, exclusion and the debarment list. Modifications and change notices. 30-day payment terms and payment publication. Oversight, and what a section 108 notice means for you. |
| Governance and financial controls | Budget holders, finance, procurement, internal assurance, members and boards | Contract procedure rules and financial regulations. Delegated authority and gateways. Business case classification, including land deals against works contracts. Uncontracted and cumulative spend. The administration cost of small payments. Registers, records and evidence. Ending retrospective approvals. |
| Bid and tender excellence | Supplier bid teams, and authority teams who want to understand what they are evaluating | Reading the notice and the evaluation model. Qualification and the bid decision. Storyboarding and writing to the criteria. Pricing for the most advantageous tender. Social value and carbon reduction. Clarifications, assessment summaries and standstill. |
| Bespoke | Any of the above | Built around your own procedures, your live cases and the questions your people are actually asking. Modular, so later sessions adjust to what the first one shows. |
How sessions run
Your procedures, your cases, your decisions.
- Built from a pre-course questionnaire.What people do, what they decide and where they get stuck, so the content lands at the right level for a mixed room.
- Worked on real material.Your contract procedure rules, your notices, your evaluation models and anonymised live cases, rather than generic examples.
- Exercises, not lectures.Classifying a purchase, choosing a route, scoring a tender, deciding whether a modification needs a notice. People remember what they decided.
- Something to take away.Checklists, templates and reference material aligned to the session, and follow-up access for the questions that surface afterwards.
- Modular by design.Programmes adjust after each session to feedback and to new guidance as it emerges, which under this Act it does.
Delivered
Recent programmes.
Procurement Act 2023 e-learning, unitary authority
Three modules for officers and budget holders: scope and thresholds; transparency and reporting; evaluation and exclusion changes. Written so a budget holder can act on them, not just complete them.
Bid and framework workshops for supplier teams
Delivered inside Strategic Public Sector Growth programmes for technology and services companies, many of them international: how UK public buyers evaluate, how to write to the criteria, and how to price for the most advantageous tender.
Questions we are asked
About training.
Can members, boards or executives get a short briefing?
Yes. A 60 to 90 minute briefing on what the Act changed, what oversight now looks like and what the board is being asked to approve is one of the most requested formats.
How many people can attend?
Workshops work best in groups small enough to do the exercises, and briefings can be larger. We agree the format to the audience rather than the other way round.
Can training follow a compliance review or a transformation programme?
Yes, and it is the natural sequence: the review shows where the decisions go wrong, the programme fixes the controls, and the training makes sure the people applying them know why.
Do you train suppliers as well as authorities?
Yes. Bid and tender excellence is delivered to supplier bid teams, and the compliance and governance modules are adapted for suppliers who want to understand the rules their customers work to.
In person or online?
Either, or both across a programme. In person for workshops where the exercises matter, online for briefings, follow-up surgeries and dispersed teams, and e-learning where a whole organisation needs the same baseline at its own pace.