The NPPS is designed to support the implementation of the Procurement Act 2023 and which has been delayed until February 2025.
To inform the NPPS, The Cabinet Office wants to understand how a new, mission-driven approach to public procurement could support delivery of the Government’s missions alongside local priorities and has launched a survey which asks four open questions:
- Maximising value for money: How can mission-driven procurement help us achieve greater value for money for the taxpayer in the delivery of public services?
- Delivering social value: How can we use public procurement to achieve greater social value to support delivery of the missions?
- Enabling collaboration: How can we accelerate collaboration in public procurement (between central and local government, between local anchor partners (e.g. in health and education) and in partnership with suppliers), to support delivery of the missions?
- Fostering innovation: How can we help policy-makers/commissioners identify challenges that can be put to the market to support mission outcomes through innovation, and improve commercial capability to deliver mission-driven procurement?
These questions are broad and provide an opportunity to describe the challenges of the current regime as well as the opportunity to strengthen market access for life enhancing diagnostics in some key areas.
BIVDA will be submitting a response and members should also consider responding directly. BIVDA is planning to hold a session to feed into this but members can also contact Beth Loudon, Head of Market Access at beth.loudon@bivda.org.uk with any specific points to include.
The survey can be found here.
The survey closes at midday on 4th November 2024.
