Public Procurement and Property

• Reserving contracts for supported businesses – SPPN 1/2025

  29th May 2025 by Emma Hall

  

  The Scottish Government has published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN), SPPN 1/2025, which replaces SPPN 4/2017 and provides updated advice on reserving contracts for supported businesses.

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• Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland – two years on

  28th May 2025 by Teigan Kelly

  

  To mark the second anniversary of the Public Procurement Strategy for Scotland (PPSfS), we are introducing eight Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to help us measure progress against the strategy’s vision.

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• Sustainable Procurement Tools – what’s new?

  27th May 2025 by Teigan Kelly

  

  Since their launch in June 2020, we have continuously reviewed and updated our National Sustainable Procurement Tools website. We now have over 3,350 users of Sustainable Procurement Tools across 528 organisations. In response to user feedback, several developments have recently been made to the website.

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• Scottish Government Annual Procurement Report 2023 – 2024 published

  21st May 2025 by Teigan Kelly

  

  We have published our latest annual report which provides an overview of Scottish Government procurement activity during the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

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• Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025 (GAAD)

  15th May 2025 by Teigan Kelly

  

  Today (15 May) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). The purpose of the day, is to raise knowledge and awareness about creating accessible content and to learn what you can do to help remove accessibility barriers.

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