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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• Legislative and system changes – SPPN 2/2024

  11th December 2024 by Teigan Kelly

  We have published a new Scottish Procurement Policy Note (SPPN) on changes to Scottish procurement legislation and minor system updates to Public Contracts Scotland (PCS).

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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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• Supporting innovation through procurement SPPN 03/2023

  27th July 2023 by Melissa Reilly

  The policy note provides details on recent innovation-related developments.

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