Buyer’s guides
Buyer’s guides to procuring training.
Four guides for agency buyers and evaluation panels, reviewed October 2026.
Practical guides for agencies and organisations preparing to procure capability development, exercises and training, including insider threat training.
Guides.
Plain-English guides written for agency buyers and evaluation panels, covering the decisions that come before a procurement and the questions to ask providers.
- How to buy training and capability developmentDefine the outcome, choose the right procurement route, write the statement of requirements and evaluate providers, including the November 2025 rule changes.Read the guide
- Procuring tabletop exercisesPurpose, exercise types, what to put in your statement of requirements, how to evaluate providers and common pitfalls.Read the guide
- Procuring insider threat trainingStart with the risk, choose the right approach, what to put in your statement of requirements, how to evaluate providers and common pitfalls.Read the guide
- What the PSPF requires of security trainingThe training requirements in PSPF Release 2026, what changed from 1 July 2026, who must be trained, and the records your annual report needs.Read the guide
Each guide is free to use. If you are scoping a procurement and want to talk it through, we can help.
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