Book your place onto our in person workshop, an intensive day designed to build practical confidence in the MOD Contracting processes, especially considering the new Procurement Act 2023. We will break down the key provisions, legal requirements and best-practice approach so you can apply the new rules immediately. As the most significant reform to procurement law for decades, the Act requires organisations that supply (or plan to supply) public bodies to be ready to operate effectively in the new regime. You will leave equipped to steer stakeholders through the transition period, manage uncertainty and provide clear, independent advice.
Whether you work in defence and security or adjacent markets, it’s essential that your organisation can operate confidently under the new governing law. This course includes the latest updates on Defence Transformation, which is progressing alongside the changes under PA2023. Places are limited so secure your booking now to ensure your team is prepared.
Benefits of participation
- Understand the new Procurement Regulations, how to interpret statutory guidance, and where relevant derogations and exemptions may apply.
- Get practical clarity on transparency, debarment and KPI obligations, what’s changing, what it means for you, and how to stay compliant.
- Take away a proven framework to navigate the new procedures, build stronger bids and manage contracts compliantly, reducing risk and supporting better outcomes
Workshop content includes
- What the new regulations are designed to achieve and how to align your approach to them.
- The new procurement procedures, what they are, when they’re used and how they work in practice.
- Defence and security derogations and exemptions, where they apply and how to evidence them.
- Open and closed frameworks, how they’re structured and what they mean for suppliers.
- Enhanced transparency, what the MoD need to publish, track and manage across the lifecycle.
- Debarment, how it works, how to reduce exposure and what good governance looks like.
- Key performance indicators, setting, monitoring and responding to KPI requirements.
Workshop leader
The course is led by Sharon Croome who is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply and a Fellow of the World Commerce & Contracting Association. Sharon has 30 years' experience in senior commercial positions within major UK defence companies. Sharon now acts as Commercial & Procurement Advisor for several clients in the defence sector, including the UK MOD. She also provides procurement and contract management training and advice either directly to companies or to industry through ADS
