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The annual procurement report, built from the record

Section 18 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 sets out what your annual procurement report must contain. Tenderscape drafts each section from work your team has already done, and shows what still needs your input.

Tenderscape helps you meet these duties. It isn't legal advice.

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What each section draws on

Annual procurement report 2027-28 · draft

Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, Section 18(2)(a)

Regulated procurements completed

Contracts awarded
46
Value
£18,420,000
Awarded to SMEs
29

Source: Your award register, with award notices published in Public Contracts Scotland (read from its open contracting data feed) as supporting evidence.

Example figures for a fictional council.

From open data to a published report

Part of Tenderscape reporting, alongside spend by route, local spend and Power BI.

  1. 01

    Connect

    Tenderscape reads your organisation’s contract and award notices from the Public Contracts Scotland open data feed every night.

  2. 02

    Match

    Notices are matched to contracts in your register, including the community benefits and supported business steps recorded against them.

  3. 03

    Review

    Each section is drafted with its figures and the records behind them, so you can check how every number was reached.

  4. 04

    Publish

    Your report signatory, who did not prepare it, signs off the prepared report. Export it to Word, Excel or CSV, and add your commentary in the Word document before publishing it on your website.

Common questions

Who has to publish an annual procurement report?
Any contracting authority that must prepare a procurement strategy under the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014. That is an authority expecting to spend £5 million or more on regulated procurements in the next financial year. The report covers its regulated procurement activity and is published as soon as reasonably practicable after the financial year ends.

Tenderscape helps you meet these duties. It isn't legal advice.

Do we need to run every procurement in Tenderscape?
No. Regulated procurements advertised in Public Contracts Scotland are read from its open data feed. Below-threshold quotes run in Tenderscape add to the picture, and your existing contract register can be imported.
Can we change the wording before we publish?
Yes. Tenderscape drafts the figures and summaries from your records. Your team reviews each section, your report signatory, who did not prepare it, signs it off, and you add your commentary to the exported Word document before publication.
Is the draft complete without our input?
No. Tenderscape fills in the figures it can evidence from Public Contracts Scotland notices and your Tenderscape records, and shows the records behind each one. Notices it can’t match to your register are listed for you to resolve, and the commentary on your procurement strategy is yours to write. Nothing is exported until your team has reviewed it.

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