Public Procurement and Property

• Construction Procurement Handbook in the Client Guide to Construction Projects Updated

  1st September 2021 by Fiona McCaig

  Our Construction Procurement Handbook in the Client Guide to Construction Projects has been updated.

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• Changes to Scottish procurement legislation following the UK’s exit from the EU SPPN 5/2021

  18th August 2021 by Fiona McCaig

  This note covers the changes to procurement legislation that have arisen from the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU).

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• #NoWrongPath to discover the Power of Procurement

  10th August 2021 by Niamh Duncan

  To support young people across Scotland through #NoWrongPath day we asked some of our staff to reflect on their careers so far and how they got into procurement. Sophie and David, some of our portfolio specialists have had very different routes to the same team, while Jayne, one of our eCommerce specialists shows how one…

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• Annual procurement reports for 2020 – 2021: revised procurement strategies and notifying Scottish Ministers: SPPN 4/2021

  15th July 2021 by Fiona McCaig

  This note provides details of how a public body should notify Scottish Ministers of the publication of their annual procurement report covering the financial year 2020/21.

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• Research on the impact and value of the sustainable procurement duty

  18th December 2020 by Niamh Duncan

  Analysis of the impact and value of the sustainable procurement duty in procurement now available.

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• Sustainable procurement duty tools update

  11th November 2020 by Niamh Duncan

  New user guide available for the Sustainability Test

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• Avoiding conflicts beats dealing with disputes

  14th June 2018 by Lorraine Carlyle

  Construction Policy Unit event in partnership with Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

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• New policy note on reserving contracts for supported businesses published today

  1st November 2017 by Sarah McLeod

  Find out more about reserving contracts for supported businesses

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• Find out about our ICT collaborative team

  19th September 2017 by Denis Mcfadden

  Interested in procurement of ICT? Find out about our ICT collaborative team, who are they and what they do.

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• Find out more about some of our online procurement tools

  11th September 2017 by Sarah McLeod

  We have three online tools to help the public sector buy goods and services. the Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) advertising portal, the PCS-Tender national eTendering system and, the Scottish Procurement Information Hub, an online spend analysis tool.   What is Public Contracts Scotland? PCS is a website where Scottish public bodies must publish advertisements for regulated procurements….

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