Sources
The rules, thresholds and public data this site relies on, each with the words of the law, the regulation, the government guidance or the page it comes from. Read on 3 October 2026. Where we could not confirm something from a primary source, it says so.
GOV.UK, Transforming public procurement
The new regime applies to procurements started from 24 February 2025.
“The Procurement Act 2023 came into force on 24 February 2025.”
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GOV.UK, Guidance: Below-threshold contracts, para. 11
Smaller contracts are now advertised on the same central platform (Find a Tender) as the large ones, which is why the radar reads only Find a Tender.
“The requirement to publish a below-threshold tender notice and contract details notice on the central digital platform replaces the requirement to publish a contract notice and contract award notice only on Contracts Finder.”
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Outside central government, a below-threshold contract must be advertised by notice from £30,000 (£12,000 for central government).
“(b) otherwise, not less than £30,000.”
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Procurement Act 2023, Sch. 1 row 12 (from 1 January 2026)
The full regime applies to goods and services contracts of councils and other sub-central bodies from £207,720; £135,018 for central government (row 11).
“Contract for the supply of goods, services or works to a sub-central government authority not within any other row”
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Procurement Regulations 2024, reg. 18(2)(k)
The notice carries the award criteria or a summary; the questions themselves are in the tender documents, which is why you upload the ITT.
“(k) the award criteria, or a summary of the award criteria, for the public contract,”
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Procurement Act 2023, s.23(3)(b)
Authorities may weight criteria as percentages, rank them, or describe their importance in words. We read only explicit percentages; the rest is entered by a person.
“(i) weighting each as representing a percentage of total importance,”
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Procurement Act 2023, Sch. 7 para. 13(2)(b)
A supplier that gives inaccurate or misleading information may be excluded. Every sentence of your draft is traced to your own material for this reason.
“(b) providing information that is incomplete, inaccurate or misleading;”
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After a competitive award the authority tells every bidder how its tender was assessed. Our refund rule uses those marks.
“a contracting authority must provide an assessment summary to each supplier that submitted an assessed tender.”
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PPN 017: Improving transparency of AI use in procurement, para. 9
Using AI to prepare a bid is allowed.
“It is important to note that suppliers’ use of AI is not prohibited during the commercial process”
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An authority may ask you whether AI was used. If your ITT asks, answer truthfully: the draft was prepared with AI from your own material and checked by a person.
“Asking suppliers to disclose their use of AI in the creation of their tender”
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The note binds central government; other authorities may follow it. Whether YOUR authority requires disclosure is in your ITT — not verified by us in general.
“This Procurement Policy Note (PPN) applies to all central government departments, their executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies.”
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Find a Tender, Data and API documentation
The radar reads Find a Tender's public data, which anyone may reuse under the Open Government Licence.
“Notice data is available under the Open Government Licence”
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Glaxtons, How Much Do Bid Writing Services Cost in 2026?
What a bid-writing agency says a single tender response costs.
“Single Tender Responses: £2,000 to £8,000”
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Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003, reg. 22(1)
The consent rule for marketing e-mail covers individuals, sole traders and partnerships; our outreach writes only to companies.
“This regulation applies to the transmission of unsolicited communications by means of electronic mail to individual subscribers.”
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A freelance bid editor costs £200–300 per bid — not verified; it is our own cost estimate.
Not verified (2026-10-03).