The launch of the Procurement Act 2023 in February also legislated for a Central Procurement digital platform. The previous Find-a-Tender as the government portal for opportunities is being replaced with a new one, also called Find-a-Tender. The intent is that the platform will go further in removing barriers for industry to identify and respond to opportunities as well as making it easier for Contracting Authorities to comply with their transparency obligations under the Act, specifically it will:
- Feature a simple registration and identification for both suppliers and buyers.
- Store suppliers’ core business details that can be used for multiple bids.
- Enable easy management and updating of core information quickly, and shared easily between suppliers, eSenders and buyers.
- Make public procurement opportunities visible making it easier to search at no cost and set up alerts for tenders of interest for suppliers.
- Allow for procurement noticing throughout the procurement lifecycle.
- Capture procurement data and eventually will create dashboards to analyse that data.
Important to note is that whilst you may already be registered on the old Find-a-Tender platform you will need to reregister. See link for details on how to do this and other FAQs which you may find useful.
Please do contact our Director of Market Access Beth Loudon at beth.loudon@bivda.org.uk if you need any support.
