{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348267181",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012",
  "text": "(1) The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1 (contracts of relevant authorities)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;\n(ii) in paragraph (b)—\n(aa) for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;\n(bb) for “the agreement” substitute “the framework”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) in paragraph (a)—\n(aa) for “submitting a notice to the UK e-notification service” substitute “publishing a notice under the Procurement Act 2023”;\n(bb) for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;\n(ii) in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;\n(c) in subsection (4), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;\n(d) in subsection (10), for “Regulations” substitute “Procurement Act 2023”;\n(e) in subsection (15)—\n(i) in the definition of “central government authority”, for “Regulations (even though the Regulations do not apply)” substitute “Procurement Act 2023 (see Schedule 1 to that Act) (even though the Act does not apply)”;\n(ii) after the definition of “central government authority”, insert—\n““concession contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 8 of that Act);\n“defence and security contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 7 of that Act);\n“exempted contract” is a contract that would be considered an exempted contract for the purposes of Schedule 2 (exempted contracts) to the Procurement Act 2023 (even though that Act does not apply);\n“framework” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 45 of that Act) (whether or not the Act applies), and a reference to a contract based on a framework is a reference to a contract entered into on terms established by such an arrangement;\n“light touch contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 9 of that Act) (even though the Act does not apply);\n“public contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 3 of that Act);”;\n(iii) in the definition of “relevant authority”, for “Regulations (whether or not the Regulations apply)” substitute “Procurement Act 2023 (see section 2 of that Act) (whether or not the Act applies)”;\n(iv) after the definition of “relevant authority”, insert—\n““sub-central government authority” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see Schedule 1 to that Act) (even though the Act does not apply);\n“utilities contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 6 of that Act)”;\n(v) omit the definition of—\n(aa) “framework agreement”;\n(bb) “the Regulations”;\n(cc) “sub-central contracting authority”;\n(dd) “the UK e-notification service”;\n(f) for subsection (16), substitute—\n“(16) For the purposes of this section references to a public services contract are to—\n(a) a public contract for the supply of services to which the Procurement Act 2023 applies (or which is treated as such a contract by that Act), other than a utilities contract, defence and security contract or concession contract;\n(b) a contract, not being a contract within paragraph (a), which—\n(i) is a light touch contract,\n(ii) is not an exempted contract, a utilities contract, a defence and security contract or a concession contract, and\n(iii) falls within subsection (17).\n(17) A contract falls within this subsection if—\n(a) it is awarded by a central government authority and is estimated to be of a value equal to or greater than the threshold amount mentioned in row 11 of the table in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 1 to the Procurement Act 2023, or\n(b) it is awarded by a sub-central government authority and is estimated to be of a value equal to or greater than the threshold amount mentioned in row 12 of that table.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2012 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 1(2) was amended by S.I. 2020/1319; section 1(15) was amended by S.I. 2015/102; the definitions of “central government authority” and “sub-central contracting authority” were inserted by S.I. 2016/275; the definition of “UK e-notification service” was inserted by S.I. 2020/1319 and section 1(16) was substituted by S.I. 2016/275."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267181/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:53.910749+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}