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New Procurement Act 2023 Thresholds from 1 January 2026

The Procurement Act 2023 continues to reshape the public procurement landscape, and from 2026/27 the revised financial thresholds will apply when determining whether a procurement must follow the full regulated procedures.

What Tender Documents Do I Need to be Compliant With the Procurement Act 2023?

With the Procurement Act 2023 now in force, understanding how to run a compliant and transparent procurement process does need a little more work on the basis of getting your head around the new regulations.

Effective Procurement Planning

In this blog we look at the crucial aspects of procurement, to help you with your planning. To be most effective, you should consider: key…

Guest Blog: How to Exit a Contract You’re Unhappy With: A Guide for Schools and Trusts

Disclaimer: Anything posted in this blog is for general information only and is not intended to provide legal advice on any general or specific matter.…

Procuring Construction and Estate Management Professional Services – A Supplier’s Perspective

With a decade of working with schools and academies on construction and estate management, both as a client and as a consultant, Jonathan Jones of MAC…

Planning

Aligning Your Estates Vision With Your Educational Vision

Jo Marchant, author of the brilliantly practical “The School Premises Handbook”, has worked in school estate management for the last 15 years. In this blog,…

Planning

How To Make Your School Stand Out From The Crowd

Communitas PR is a marketing communications consultancy working exclusively in the education sector both in the UK and internationally. Director Ken Stevens has designed and led…

MIS Procurement – Choosing and Implementing the Best System For You

MIS Procurement, on the surface appears straightforward with the DfE recommending suppliers and comparators but scratch below the surface and thinks can be a bit more complicated.

GUEST BLOG: Energy Price Rises

Every school site manager must now be facing the prospect of immediate or imminent energy price increases that are quite frankly staggering and potentially budget breaking. However, it is not all bad news...

GUEST BLOG: Is the Grim Reaper coming for Traditional Telecoms?

Is the Grim Reaper coming for Traditional Telecoms? Sebastian Birch, Director of Focus Group, explains the changes coming to analogue telephone lines in 2025. As…

Don’t run out of time

Time is an essential part of a successful procurement process. With a bit of planning you can avoid running out of it, says Lorraine Ashover…

Planning new windows of opportunity

The period since the school shutdown has been furiously busy for school business professionals. The past few weeks have been a curious mix of firefighting…

Planning for the other side of the looking glass

Like Alice in Wonderland, we seem to have clambered through the looking glass into a strange, fantastical world where logic has been inverted. The normal…

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