{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-11.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/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Competitive Process",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where—\n(a) the relevant authority must follow the Competitive Process under regulation 7(2) or (7), or\n(b) the relevant authority decides to follow the Competitive Process in accordance with regulation 7(5) or (6).\n(2) The relevant authority must follow the steps set out in this regulation.\nStep 1\n(3) The relevant authority must determine the contract or framework award criteria.\n(4) In determining the contract or framework award criteria, the relevant authority must take into account the key criteria and apply the basic selection criteria.\nStep 2\n(5) The relevant authority must submit for publication a notice inviting offers to provide the relevant health services in relation to which the contract is to be awarded or the framework agreement is to be concluded.\n(6) The notice referred to in paragraph (5) must include the information set out in Schedule 9.\nStep 3\n(7) The relevant authority must assess any offers received in accordance with the contract or framework award criteria.\n(8) A relevant authority may assess offers received under step 3 in stages.\nStep 4\n(9) The relevant authority must make a decision as to the chosen provider.\nStep 5\n(10) The relevant authority must promptly notify, in writing—\n(a) the successful provider that their offer has been successful, and the relevant authority intends to award a contract or conclude the framework agreement;\n(b) each unsuccessful provider that their offer has been unsuccessful, and such notice must include the information set out in Schedule 10.\nStep 6\n(11) The relevant authority must submit for publication a notice of intention to make an award to the chosen provider or conclude a framework agreement.\n(12) The notice referred to in paragraph (11) must include the information set out in Schedule 11.\n(13) Following the publication of the notice in paragraph (11), the standstill period begins in accordance with regulation 12(4).\nStep 7\n(14) 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) notify potential providers of 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(15) Where no written representations are made in accordance with regulation 12(5), the relevant authority may move from step 6 to step 8.\nStep 8\n(16) The relevant authority may enter into the contract or conclude the framework agreement after the standstill period has ended in accordance with regulation 12(14) or (15).\nStep 9\n(17) Where the relevant authority enters into a contract or concludes a framework agreement under step 8, the relevant authority must submit for publication a notice of the award of the contract or conclusion of the framework agreement within 30 days of the contract being awarded or the framework agreement being concluded.\n(18) The notice referred to in paragraph (17) must include the information set out in Schedule 12.",
  "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/11",
    "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."
}