{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1348",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Abandonment of, or repetition of steps in, a procurement",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a relevant authority may—\n(a) abandon a procurement of relevant health care services under these Regulations and not award a contract, or not conclude a framework agreement, or\n(b) go back to an earlier step in the selection process and repeat that step and subsequent steps,\nat any time before an award is made or a framework agreement concluded.\n(2) In a standstill period, a relevant authority may only make a decision to—\n(a) abandon a procurement, or\n(b) go back to an earlier step in a selection process and repeat that step and subsequent steps,\nwhere that decision is in accordance with the procedure and requirements in regulation 12.\n(3) Where a relevant authority makes a decision referred to in paragraph (2), the relevant authority may only abandon the procurement or repeat those steps after the standstill period has ended.\n(4) Where, having started a process to procure relevant health care services under these Regulations, a relevant authority decides to abandon a procurement, the relevant authority must submit for publication on the central digital platform a notice of that decision.\n(5) The notice in paragraph (4) must be submitted for publication—\n(a) where the decision is made in a standstill period—\n(i) after the standstill period has ended, and\n(ii) within 30 days of the end of that standstill period;\n(b) in any other case, within 30 days of the decision to abandon the procurement.\n(6) Where, having started a process to procure relevant health care services under these Regulations, a relevant authority decides to repeat a step or steps, the relevant authority must inform relevant providers of that decision in writing.\n(7) Paragraph (6) is satisfied where a decision to repeat a step or steps has been communicated to a provider in accordance with regulation 12(6) or (8).\n(8) In this regulation—\n(a) a reference to a step in the selection process is to a step referred to in regulation 9 (Direct Award Process C), 10 (the Most Suitable Provider Process) or 11 (the Competitive Process) as the case may be;\n(b) “relevant providers” in paragraph (6) means any provider who has been made aware in the selection process that they are being considered for the award of a contract or to be a party to a framework agreement.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 15(4) substituted (24.2.2025) by The Procurement Act 2023 (Consequential and Other Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/163), regs. 1(2), 28(3) (with reg. 34)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 1.1.2024, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1348/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:17.572793+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."
}