{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-single-source-contract-regulations-2014/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-single-source-contract-regulations-2014/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2014/9780111122440",
  "legislation_title": "The Single Source Contract Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-single-source-contract-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Determination of allowable costs",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may not make an application under section 20(5) for a determination of the extent to which a particular cost is an allowable cost unless—\n(a) the Secretary of State has sent the primary contractor a written notice requiring the primary contractor to show that the requirements set out in section 20(2)(a) to (c) are met in relation to that cost;\n(b) at least 20 working days have elapsed since the date of that notice; and\n(c) no response, or no response which the Secretary of State considers to be satisfactory, has been received.\n(2) An application must be made within two years after the contract completion date.\n(3) In making a determination, the SSRO must have regard to—\n(a) the information that was available to each party at the time of agreement;\n(b) the statutory guidance in place at the time of agreement;\n(c) in the case of a contract which contains provision of the kind described in regulation 15 (TCIF adjustment), those provisions;\n(d) whether the parties disclosed, in a timely manner, the facts and assumptions they used to determine the allowable costs or the contract profit rate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111122440/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:11:52.928990+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."
}