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—

(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—

(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;

(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.