1 Contracts of relevant authorities
Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (2012 c 3) | Legislation

1  Contracts of relevant authorities

(1)     If a relevant authority proposes to procure or make arrangements for procuring the provision of services, or the provision of services together with the purchase or hire of goods or the carrying out of works, by—

(a)     entering into a public services contract that is not a contract based on a framework agreement, or

(b)     concluding a framework agreement as regards which public services contracts are likely to constitute the greater part by value of the contracts based on the agreement,

it must comply with the requirements in subsections (3), (6) and (7) before starting the process of procurement.

(2)     The authority is to be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as having started the process of procurement as regards what is proposed to be procured as soon as it takes whichever of the following steps is the first to occur—

(a)     [submitting a notice to the UK e-notification service] for the purpose of inviting tenders, requests to be selected to tender or to negotiate or requests to participate in relation to a public services contract or framework agreement relating to what is proposed to be procured;

(b)     publishing an advertisement seeking offers

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