On September 12th 2024, the Cabinet Office announced that the scheduled 'go-live' date for the 2023 Procurement Act was to be pushed back.

Instead of commencing on October 28th 2024, the Act will now come into effect on February 24th 2025 - a roughly 4 month delay.

In a Written Parliamentary Statement submitted on Tuesday 12th September, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office, Georgia Gould MP, explained that the Act's go-live date needed to be pushed back to provide time for the government to update the National Procurement Policy Statement (NPPS).

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