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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-care-services-provider-selection-regime-regulations-2023/schedule-16/paragraph-1",
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  "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": "schedule/16/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Basic selection criteria: general principles",
  "text": "(1) The basic selection criteria which must be met by a provider may relate to—\n(a) suitability to pursue a particular activity;\n(b) economic and financial standing;\n(c) technical and professional ability.\n(2) A relevant authority may impose on providers as requirements only the criteria referred to in this Schedule.\n(3) A relevant authority must limit any requirements to those that are appropriate to ensure that a provider has the legal and financial capacities and the technical and professional abilities to perform the contract to be awarded.\n(4) All requirements must be related and proportionate to the subject-matter of the contract or framework agreement.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 16 para. 1 in force at 1.1.2024, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1348/schedule/16/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}