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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• We have published SPPN 5/2023 on updates to procurement thresholds

  30th October 2023 by Melissa Reilly

  We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN) on updates to procurement thresholds SPPN 5/2023.

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• We have published SPPN 4/2023 following the Republic of North Macedonia’s accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement

  26th October 2023 by Melissa Reilly

  We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN) on changes to Scottish procurement legislation following the Republic of North Macedonia’s accession to the Agreement on Government Procurement: SPPN 4/2023.

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• We have published SPPN 2/2023 on annual reports

  4th May 2023 by Chris McLean

  We have published the new Annual procurement reports for 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. This SPPN provides details of how a public body should notify Scottish Ministers of the publication of their annual procurement reports covering the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-2024.

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• We have published SPPN 1/2023 on Free Trade Agreements

  23rd March 2023 by Fiona McCaig

  This SPPN, gives advance notice of changes to Scottish procurement legislation and to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) that will be made to implement the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) between the UK and Australia, and the UK and New Zealand.

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