Procurement policy note 10/13: new threshold levels for 2014 · first published 17 December 2013
This Procurement Policy Note (PPN 10/13) set the official procurement threshold values that applied from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015, covering public contracts, utilities contracts, and defence and security contracts. It is now explicitly out of date. The UK government's own summary states that businesses should refer to PPN 10/21 (Thresholds and Inclusion of VAT) for current rules. No specific threshold figures are available from the text we have. Any small business researching contract value thresholds must use PPN 10/21, not this document.
WHO THIS APPLIES TO
THE ENKII VIEW
This document is historic and has no practical value for SMEs bidding today — acting on its thresholds would mean working with figures that are nearly a decade out of date. The only useful thing it signals is that threshold levels are updated periodically; SMEs should always check they are referencing the current PPN (PPN 10/21) when assessing whether a contract is above or below a relevant threshold.
1. Discard PPN 10/13 entirely and look up PPN 10/21 (Thresholds and Inclusion of VAT) on GOV.UK for the current threshold figures.
All suppliers researching procurement thresholds — The document itself states it is out of date and directs readers to PPN 10/21.
Every rule below quotes the official document verbatim.
The threshold values in this PPN applied from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015 only. (All in-scope public contracts, utilities contracts, defence and security contracts — historic period only)
“provides the finalised threshold values to apply from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2015”
This PPN is now out of date and has been superseded by PPN 10/21: Thresholds and Inclusion of VAT. (All buyers and suppliers who previously relied on PPN 10/13)
“This Procurement Policy Note (PPN) is now out of date. Please refer to PPN 10/21: Thresholds & Inclusion of VAT”
This briefing is enkii's interpretation of the official document — the official text always governs.
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