Purpose
Market Accord exists to improve how buyers, suppliers, entrepreneurs and affected users understand requirements, develop capability, test delivery, create evidence and learn together.
Beneficiaries
The intended beneficiaries include smaller and new suppliers, capable professionals forming organisations, buyers seeking a healthier market, users affected by service quality, and the wider market that can use responsibly published learning.
Principles
- Mutual responsibility: buyer and supplier behaviour both shape outcomes.
- Evidence before claims: source, observation, report and interpretation are distinguished.
- Implementation before appearance: a process must operate, not merely exist on paper.
- Proportionality: controls match risk, size and context.
- Transparency: legal operators, funding, interests and limitations are visible.
- Competition and fairness: development must not create hidden procurement advantage.
- Responsible learning: negative results and stop decisions have value.
- Participant dignity: research and public learning should not exploit vulnerability or confidential experience.
- Accessibility: participation and information should be usable by the widest reasonable audience.
- Correctability: credible challenges are reviewed and material changes recorded.
What Market Accord will not become
- A pay-to-badge assurance scheme.
- A disguise for Bid Champions lead generation.
- A means to fabricate company history or hide ownership.
- A source of confidential tender intelligence.
- An automatic supplier-quality scoring platform.
- A claim of charitable or independent status that does not exist.
Review
The charter is reviewed as the legal structure, participant volume, funding and risk develop. Material changes should be dated and explained.