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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2025 No. 1200
PUBLIC PROCUREMENT
The Procurement Act 2023 (Threshold
Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025
Made - - - - 18th November 2025
Laid before Parliament 21st November 2025
Coming into force - - 1st January 2026
The Minister for the Cabinet Office makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
section 85(4) of, and paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Procurement Act 2023(1).
These Regulations are made with the consent of the Department of Finance for Northern Ireland
in accordance with section 113(4) of the Procurement Act 2023.
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Procurement Act 2023 (Threshold Amounts)
(Amendment) Regulations 2025 and come into force on 1st January 2026.
(2) The amendments made by these Regulations have the same extent as the provisions to which
they relate.
Amendment of the Procurement Act 2023
2.—(1) The Procurement Act 2023 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 85(3) (regulated below-threshold contracts: procedure)—
(a) in paragraph (a), for “£138,760” substitute “£135,018”;
(b) in paragraph (b), for “£213,477” substitute “£207,720”.
(3) In Schedule 1 (threshold amounts)(2), in paragraph 1—
(a) in sub-paragraph (1), for the words before the table substitute—
“The threshold amount for a contract of a type referred to in the second column of the
table below is—
(1) 2023 c. 54. See section 123(1) of the Procurement Act 2023 for the definitions of “appropriate authority” and “Minister of
the Crown”.
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(c) if the contract is regulated by the Welsh Ministers, the threshold set out in the
corresponding row of the third column, and
(d) in any other case, the threshold set out in the corresponding row of the fourth
column.”;
(b) in sub-paragraph (1), in the table—
(i)in the heading of the third column, at the end insert “: contract regulated by Welsh
Ministers”;
(ii)insert a fourth column as follows—
“Threshold amount: any other contract
£5,193,000
£5,193,000
£415,440
£5,193,000
£884,720
£415,440
£5,372,609
£663,540
£5,193,000
£5,193,000
£135,018
£207,720”;
(c) after sub-paragraph (1), insert—
“(1B) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) a contract is regulated by the Welsh
Ministers if it is—
(a) a contract awarded by a contracting authority that is a devolved Welsh
authority, other than such a contract awarded as part of a procurement
under a reserved procurement arrangement or a transferred Northern Ireland
procurement arrangement, or
(b) a contract which is awarded as part of a procurement under a devolved Welsh
procurement arrangement.”.
Transitional provisions
3.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations affects any procurement commenced before the day on
which these Regulations come into force.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), a procurement is commenced before the day on which
these Regulations come into force if, before that day—
(a) a tender notice has been published in accordance with section 21 (tender notices and
associated tender documents) of the Procurement Act 2023;
(b) a transparency notice has been published in accordance with section 44 (transparency
notices) of that Act;
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(c) a below-threshold tender notice has been published in accordance with section 87
(regulated below-threshold contracts: notices)(3) of that Act;
(d) a contracting authority has invited the submission of tenders in relation to a regulated
below-threshold contract (see section 85(1) (regulated below-threshold contracts:
procedure) of that Act);
(e) in respect of a below-threshold contract to which neither sub-paragraph (c) nor (d) applies,
a contracting authority has contacted a supplier in order to commence the award of that
contract.
Chris Ward
Parliamentary Secretary
18th November 2025 Cabinet Office
(3) Section 87(4) was amended by S.I. 2024/782 (W. 121).
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations make amendments to the Procurement Act 2023 (“the Act”) to update certain
financial thresholds, which govern the procedures for the award of public contracts for goods, works
and services. These amendments follow a review of relevant thresholds to ensure they continue to
correspond with the relevant thresholds laid down in the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on
Government Procurement (“GPA”).
Regulation 2(2) amends the threshold amounts set out in section 85(3) of the Act which determine
the applicability of certain procedures to regulated below-threshold works contracts. Owing to an
oversight when the thresholds were previously updated via S.I. 2025/163, section 85(3) was not
updated to reflect the changes made to Schedule 1 to the Act. The thresholds are therefore now
updated to be consistent with the thresholds in rows 11 and 12 of Schedule 1 to the Act (which are
also being amended by these Regulations) as these were intended to align.
Regulation 2(3) amends the majority of the threshold amounts set out in Schedule 1 to the Act. Those
thresholds determine the value above which contracts of different types fall to be regulated by the
substantive regime. The threshold amounts in rows 4, 6 and 9 to 12 are set under the GPA. The
threshold amounts in rows 1 to 3 do not derive from the GPA but are amended to ensure consistency
and alignment with the GPA thresholds.
The amendments made by these Regulations do not apply to contracts regulated by the Welsh
Ministers. Welsh Ministers are making a separate statutory instrument to update the thresholds as
they apply to those contracts.
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact
on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.
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