Public Procurement Review Service PPRS
The Public Procurement Review Service (PPRS) was introduced in 2011 within the Cabinet Offices, it was one of a range of measures designed to make government easier to work with, particularly for smaller businesses. It allows government suppliers and potential government suppliers to raise any concerns they have anonymously about potentially poor public sector procurement practice. It focus as focuses as such is on specific procurement(s) and late payments as a platform for complaints.
On 24 February 2025 whne the Procurement Act 2023 came into force PPRS became one of the services of the newly established Procurement Review Unit (PRU), taking an oversight role which aims to ensure that changes introduced by the Procurement Act are embedded within contracting authorities. The other Procurement Review Unit (PRU) carrioes out three services:
- The Public Procurement Review Service (PPRS): as described above.
- The Procurement Compliance Service (PCS): a service investigating contracting authorities’ compliance with the requirements of the Procurement Act 2023 with the power to issue (and if desired, publish) statutory recommendations to the contracting authority being investigated and/or guidance that applies more generally to contracting authorities following the conclusion of an investigation.
- Debarment Review Service (DRS): a service aiming to protect public money from suppliers who pose a risk. It conducts investigations into suppliers to determine whether they are excluded or excludable suppliers and if they should be added to the public debarment list which it is also responsible for managing.
For further information see the Government guidance on the Procurement Review Unit here.
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