Regulation 25 Contracts covering both activities listed in Schedule 2 and activities involving defence or security aspectsI1

This regulation applies in the case of a concession contract intended to cover several activities, one of them being listed in Schedule 2 and one being covered by F1regulation 7(2) or F2being the supply of anything within section 7(1) of the Procurement Act 2023.

A utility may choose to award separate concession contracts for the purposes of the separate activities or to award a single contract for the purposes of all the activities.

The choice between awarding a single contract or awarding separate contracts must not be made with the objective of excluding the contract or contracts from the scope of these Regulations or the F3Procurement Act 2023 and a decision to award a single concession contract must be justified by objective reasons.

If a utility chooses to award separate concession contracts for separate parts, the decision as to which legal regime applies to any one of the separate concession contracts must be taken on the basis of the characteristics of the separate activity concerned.

If a utility chooses to award a single concession contract, regulation 23(6) to (9) shall apply.