Procurement Act 2023 — the new transparency and notice requirements.

The new mandatory notice types

Contracting authorities must now publish notices at multiple stages of a procurement. The required types:

• Pipeline Notice — annual forecast of upcoming procurements over £2m (contracting authorities with annual spend >£100m). Publishes 56 days ahead of the financial year.
• Planned Procurement Notice — early-stage notice of an upcoming specific procurement. Optional but encouraged; lets suppliers prepare.
• Tender Notice — formal notice opening the procurement. Mandatory for above-threshold contracts.
• Award Notice — published within 30 days of contract award. Names the supplier, contract value, and key dates.
• Contract Details Notice — for contracts >£5m, the buyer must publish KPIs and (annually) performance against them.
• Modification Notice — published whenever a contract is modified, with reason for modification and value impact.

What this means for suppliers

The transparency requirements give suppliers material new intelligence:

• Earlier pipeline visibility — Pipeline Notices give you 12+ months of forward visibility into major buyers' procurement plans.
• Better award intelligence — Award Notices contain supplier + value within 30 days of award, faster than previously.
• Performance signals — Contract Performance Notices on >£5m contracts let you see how incumbents are scoring against KPIs — useful for re-bid positioning.
• Modification awareness — Modification Notices reveal which contracts are being extended or expanded vs going to market.

How WinAContract surfaces the new notices

WinAContract polls Find a Tender Service + Contracts Finder hourly and tags every notice by its formal type — so you can filter your alerts to "Tender Notices only" or "Pipeline Notices for my watched buyers" or any combination. Each notice on WinAContract carries the formal notice-type label so you immediately know what stage of the procurement you're seeing.