{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Direct Award Process A",
  "text": "(1) Where the relevant authority follows Direct Award Process A, the process is that the relevant authority—\n(a) awards any contract without a competition, and\n(b) submits for publication on the central digital platform a notice of the award.\n(2) The notice referred to in paragraph (1)(b) must—\n(a) include the information set out in Schedule 2, and\n(b) be submitted for publication within 30 days of the contract being awarded.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(1)(b) 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. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}