The shift in focus
As the Procurement Act 2023 moves into an operational phase, scrutiny is increasingly falling on how contracts are managed after award, not just how they were won. Payment practices, performance reporting and ongoing transparency all now carry real compliance weight.
Why this catches suppliers off guard
Many suppliers built strong tender-stage compliance processes under the previous regime but never built equivalent discipline for post-award contract management, assuming winning the bid was the hard part. That assumption no longer holds.
Building post-award discipline
Treat contract management data, payment timelines, delivery performance, subcontractor compliance, with the same rigour as bid preparation. Suppliers who can produce this evidence on demand are the ones winning re-tenders; those who cannot are increasingly losing them regardless of price.
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