# The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025, Regulation 7: Amendment of the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012


(1) The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 is amended as follows.
(2) In section 1 (contracts of relevant authorities)—
(a) in subsection (1)—
(i) in paragraph (a), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;
(ii) in paragraph (b)—
(aa) for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;
(bb) for “the agreement” substitute “the framework”;
(b) in subsection (2)—
(i) in paragraph (a)—
(aa) for “submitting a notice to the UK e-notification service” substitute “publishing a notice under the Procurement Act 2023”;
(bb) for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;
(ii) in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;
(c) in subsection (4), for “framework agreement” substitute “framework”;
(d) in subsection (10), for “Regulations” substitute “Procurement Act 2023”;
(e) in subsection (15)—
(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)”;
(ii) after the definition of “central government authority”, insert—
““concession contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 8 of that Act);
“defence and security contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 7 of that Act);
“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);
“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;
“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);
“public contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 3 of that Act);”;
(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)”;
(iv) after the definition of “relevant authority”, insert—
““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);
“utilities contract” has the same meaning as in the Procurement Act 2023 (see section 6 of that Act)”;
(v) omit the definition of—
(aa) “framework agreement”;
(bb) “the Regulations”;
(cc) “sub-central contracting authority”;
(dd) “the UK e-notification service”;
(f) for subsection (16), substitute—
“(16) For the purposes of this section references to a public services contract are to—
(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;
(b) a contract, not being a contract within paragraph (a), which—
(i) is a light touch contract,
(ii) is not an exempted contract, a utilities contract, a defence and security contract or a concession contract, and
(iii) falls within subsection (17).
(17) A contract falls within this subsection if—
(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
(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.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348267181/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-procurement-act-2023-consequential-and-other-amendments-regulations-2025/regulation-7
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