{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/99",
  "legislation_title": "The Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Most Suitable Provider Process",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where the relevant authority has decided to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process in accordance with regulation 7(5) or (6).\n(2) The relevant authority must—\n(a) follow the steps set out in this regulation, and\n(b) award any contract without a competition.\nStep 1\n(3) The relevant authority must submit for publication a notice of intention to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process.\n(4) The notice referred to in paragraph (3) must include the information set out in Schedule 6.\nStep 2\n(5) The relevant authority must identify potential providers who may be the most suitable provider.\n(6) In identifying any potential providers in paragraph (5), the relevant authority must take into account the key criteria and apply the basic selection criteria.\n(7) The relevant authority must not conclude step 2 before the day which is 14 days after the day on which the notice of intention to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process is submitted for publication in accordance with step 1.\nStep 3\n(8) The relevant authority must assess the potential providers identified in step 2 and choose the most suitable provider to whom to make an award.\n(9) In assessing potential providers and choosing the most suitable provider, the relevant authority must take into account the key criteria and apply the basic selection criteria.\nStep 4\n(10) The relevant authority must submit for publication a notice of intention to make an award to the provider chosen as the most suitable provider.\n(11) The notice referred to in paragraph (10) must include the information set out in Schedule 7.\n(12) Following the publication of the notice in paragraph (10), the standstill period begins in accordance with regulation 12(4).\nStep 5\n(13) Where written representations are made in accordance with regulation 12(5), the relevant authority must—\n(a) comply with the requirements specified in regulation 12(7) and (9), and\n(b) communicate the further decision made under regulation 12(10) and any subsequent further decisions made under regulation 12(12), in accordance with regulation 12(11) and (13).\n(14) Where no written representations are made in accordance with regulation 12(5), the relevant authority may move from step 4 to step 6.\nStep 6\n(15) The relevant authority may enter into the contract after the standstill period has ended in accordance with regulation 12(14) or (15).\nStep 7\n(16) Where the relevant authority enters into a contract under step 6, the relevant authority must submit for publication a notice of the award of the contract within 30 days of the contract being awarded.\n(17) The notice referred to in paragraph (16) must include the information set out in Schedule 8.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/99/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:58:41.703971+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."
}