The GCF told us that the priority for implementing the new Act is training and said that it had a training programme ready to roll out from December. The GCF commented that it expects that the Act will be implemented in October 2024. We were told by the GCF that there is secondary legislation that should be passed by March 2024, which allows government six months to implement training. GCF said that its training programme would cover 20,000 procurement staff, and probably 50,000 people in policy areas and other parts of the public sector. GCF told us that government has already trained nearly 30,000 people in contract management. The GCF further explained that it had a four- part training programme, varying from online “knowledge drops”, e-learning, through to facilitated training. The GCF acknowledged that government needs to continue to develop commercial expertise across government.63 60 Q 3 61 Qq 3–4 62 Q 5 63 Q 43 18 Competition in public procurement