Overview
The guidance documents are intended to provide technical guidance and help with interpretation and understanding of the Procurement Act 2023.
The guidance documents should be read in conjunction with the Procurement Act 2023 and its associated regulations and are aimed at procurement practitioners and commercial policy leads in contracting authorities. They are intended to provide technical guidance and help with interpretation and understanding of the Procurement Act 2023.
A payments compliance notice is a notice setting out the extent to which, over a reporting period of 6 months, the contracting authority has paid its invoices in accordance with the term set out in section 68(2) of the Procurement Act 2023 (Act). It also includes other reporting requirements (set out in regulation 38(2)(c)) relating to when invoices were paid.
Contracting authorities are required to publish a payments compliance notice on the central digital platform. The purpose of the payments compliant notice is to provide transparency over contracting authorities’ compliance with the Act and, more specifically, how promptly they pay their suppliers.
Publication of payments compliance notices should incentivise faster payment, and allow contracting authorities’ payment practices to be directly comparable with those of the private sector.
Legal framework
- Sections 68 - 69
- Regulation 38
Other guidance relevant to this area
- Electronic Invoicing and Payment
- Central digital platform and publication of information
- Thresholds