Public Procurement framework

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The Public Procurement framework is a non-legislative framework to ensure continued co-operation between the government and devolved administrations in relation to public procurement.

The provisional Common Framework for public procurement sets out proposed 4-nation ways of working for domestic and international public procurement policy and legislation. It is intended to guide the actions of policy officials of all 4 nations as they develop policies on public procurement.

The framework has been jointly developed by the UK Government and devolved administrations.

Date	Action
18 August 2022	Senedd Research published a briefing on the framework.
15 July 2022	The House of Lords Common Frameworks Scrutiny Committee published its final report on the Common Frameworks programme.
23 June 2022	The Senedd Public Accounts and Public Administration Committee published its recommendations for the framework.
2 March 2022	The Scottish Parliament Economy and Fair Work Committee considered its approach for scrutiny of the framework.
25 February 2022	SPICe published a briefing on the framework.
2 February 2022	The Economy and Fair Work Committee received the framework for scrutiny.
28 January 2022	The Northern Ireland Assembly committee for Finance considered the framework and wrote a letter with its findings to the Committee for The Executive Office.
27 January 2022	An updated version of the framework was published.
23 March 2021	The provisional framework was published.