Welcome to the Procurement Development Framework
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This free-to-use online tool contains Scotland's National Procurement and Commercial Competency Framework and can be used to self-assess your skills, identify training needs and support career planning. The competency framework was refreshed and published in October 2025.
Accounts are anonymous and you will be given a unique code upon registering for your account. We advise that you link an email address when you first register. This allows you to retrieve your code in the future if you forget it.
Organisations and sectoral Centres of Expertise can run reports on aggregated data to inform organisational, sectoral and national learning needs. Your scores are only part of this data set for evaluations you actively 'include' in the reporting.



