Every Procurement Policy Note the government publishes, read the day it lands and analysed for what actually moved — rules double, tighten, and appear. Every figure below is quote-anchored to the official text; where a rule has no movement to show, we show nothing rather than invent one. Worked example throughout: PPN 026 — the Social Value Model.
A step, not a curve: the minimum social value weighting holds at 10% for 104 more days, then jumps to 20% on contracts over £5m. The shaded block is the ten points of score that appear overnight — that block is the reason to build an evidence bank now.
Source: PPN 026, Cabinet Office. Technical guidance due autumn 2026. Official text governs.
The honesty centrepiece. Struck-through rows are as load-bearing as the live ones: most SMEs reading this are selling to a buyer that isn't bound, and saying so is what makes the rest credible.
Effective 1 January 2027 · applies to procurements commenced on or after that date. Guidance addressed to central government has a history of trickling downhill — wider adoption is encouraged, not required.
The number is not the interesting part; the diet is. One bar becomes another: a buffet of themes narrows to two, and the two that survive are the ones an SME can actually evidence.
Widths show relative weight within each model, not comparable score totals — the total itself doubles (module 01).
Dated, countable, and always anchored to today. The emerald run is what's already in force; everything right of the marker is lead time you still have.
Sources: PPN 023 (thresholds) · PPN 022 (steel) · PPN 026 (social value) · PPN 024 (Public Interest Test).
One row per lineage: the verb, the figures, the shape of the change, the date it bites. Rules with no movement figure yet don't get a lane — empty lanes never render.
Cyber and SME-access lineages have briefed documents but no movement figure yet — their lanes are suppressed, not invented. Sources: PPN 026 · PPN 018 · PPN 023 · PPN 022 · PPN 024.
One square per briefed document, ordered by publication. Freshness is the differentiator, so it gets a graphic: the corpus reads twice a day and the newest square is always the top-left one.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. enkii's briefing is an interpretation; the official text governs.
Each figure above ends in one action, not a newsletter: build your social value evidence bank, and we check it against every central-government tender you match.