You’re three weeks into a bid. Your compliance reviewer flags that your evaluation criteria template doesn’t align with the latest Procurement Act 2023 requirements. You have two choices: rework the template at cost and risk, or submit a non-compliant bid and hope it passes scrutiny. This scenario plays out weekly in procurement teams across the UK—because most suppliers remain reactive to regulatory change, discovering new rules only after they’ve already affected their bids. The truth is stark: procurement regulations are in constant flux. The Procurement Act 2023 introduced 15+ changes to evaluation criteria, transparency requirements, and social value weighting. Yet from our February 2026 DCI market analysis, we found that approximately 60%…
