Define your purchasing strategy
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Your purchasing strategy must show you've considered commercial and technology aspects, and contractual limitations.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Your purchasing strategy must show you've considered commercial and technology aspects, and contractual limitations. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- How defining your purchasing strategy will help your project
- Discover your requirements and capabilities
- Choosing to build technology
- Choosing to buy technology
- Define your commercial approach
- Follow government contractual rules and guidelines
- Related guides
Source and licence
Government Digital Service
AttributionGovernment Digital Service, ‘Define your purchasing strategy’ (updated 3 September 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026