Public Sector.

Yes. Pegasus Group works with public sector organisations, including central government, local authorities and other public bodies responsible for delivering essential infrastructure, services and community developments. 

Public sector projects often involve multiple stakeholders, strict regulatory requirements, budget constraints and significant public scrutiny. Pegasus Group brings more than 20 years of experience delivering complex development projects, supported by integrated multidisciplinary teams that help clients identify risks early, make informed decisions and achieve successful project outcomes.  

Yes. Pegasus Group has successfully delivered more than 300 school and university projects, including new developments, extensions and schemes delivered as part of wider residential developments. Our teams help education providers manage planning, stakeholder engagement and delivery challenges to support the creation of high-quality learning environments. 

Yes. Pegasus Group supports healthcare developments by providing commercial, planning and development expertise to hospitals, NHS trusts, care boards and contractors. Our multidisciplinary teams help clients identify risks early, make informed decisions and support successful project delivery that benefits patients, staff and local communities. 

Yes. Pegasus Group has been appointed to several key public sector frameworks, providing a compliant, efficient and cost-effective route for public sector organisations to procure our services.

Our current appointments include: 

• GCA Construction Professional Services 2 (RM6356) – Lot 2
  Having achieved the maximum quality score on the lot, this £4.2bn national framework enables us to provide services to all UK public sector organisations, including central government, local authorities, healthcare, education, housing and defence. The framework runs from June 2026 to June 2030. 

• ESPO 2700_26 – Planning
  A £60m estates management professional services framework available to local authorities, educational institutions, NHS organisations, police forces, charities and social landlords. The framework runs until 2030, with extension options available. 

• Prosper BEDCS – Planning
  A specialist design and consultancy framework developed with landlord partners for social housing providers. It offers both direct award and further competition procurement routes at no direct cost to users. 

Engaging Pegasus Group through a framework is one of the fastest and simplest ways to comply with UK procurement regulations while ensuring value for money. 

The UK Procurement Act 2023 (came into force Feb 2025) replacing the old EU regime. The main changes brought into law were:

• A single, consolidated regime which pulls together 4 sets of regulations – public contracts, utilities, concessions and defence.

• New award criteria – Contracts are now awarded on the basis of Most Advantageous Tender rather than the previous Most Economically Advantageous Tender. This is a move away from competitions too heavily weighted on price.

• Competitive tendering procedures simplified – The old procedures (open, restricted, competitive dialogue, competitive procedure with negotiation, etc.) are replaced by two routes: a single-stage open procedure and a flexible competitive flexible procedure that authorities can design themselves to suit the contract.

• A much bigger emphasis on transparency – The Act introduces a series of mandatory notices across the whole contract lifecycle. From planning and pipeline notices through to contract award, and importantly into contract management.

• Debarment and exclusion regime overhauled – There’s a new, tougher exclusions framework distinguishing mandatory from discretionary grounds, plus a central debarment list of suppliers that can be excluded across the public sector. Poor past performance becomes a more usable ground for exclusion than before.

• Stronger treatment of below-threshold and SME access – The Act keeps and tidies rules for below-threshold contracts and carries a duty to have regard to reducing barriers for SMEs, alongside prompt-payment provisions.

• KPIs and contract management – For contracts above a threshold, authorities must publish and monitor at least three KPIs, and publish performance against them.

• Frameworks and the new “open frameworks” – Alongside conventional frameworks (still typically up to 4 years), the Act introduces open frameworks – a scheme that can run up to 8 years and must reopen to new suppliers at least twice in that period

England, Wales, and Northern Ireland – Scotland runs it’s own regime.

No, if a framework was procured prior to the assent of the Act into UK law, it is still governed by the old procurement regulations. At renewal, it will be bound to the new regulations.

A Dynamic Market is a replacement for the old Dynamic Purchasing System. Both are open lists of pre-qualified suppliers that authorities can run competitions from, and both let new suppliers apply to join at any point during their life, the differences are in scope and flexibility. Under a Dynamic Market, authorities award contracts to members using the competitive flexible procedure or the open procedure, so have much more latitude to design the process around the contract.

The threshold is the contract value at which the full weight of the Procurement Act’s rules switches on. It’s essentially a dividing line: contracts at or above the threshold are “above-threshold” (or “public contracts”) and must follow the whole regulated regime, while contracts below it fall into a lighter-touch category with far fewer obligations. Below the threshold there’s no legal duty under the Procurement Act to run a competition, so a contracting authority can direct award if it chooses. The below-threshold regime (Part 6 of the Act) controls transparency and fairness around these contracts, but it doesn’t force a competitive process. The thresholds are: Central government and NHS bodies: £135,018 for services and supplies. Non-central government authorities (local authorities, and most of the wider public sector): £207,720 for services and supplies. These figures are inclusive of VAT.