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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Abandonment of, or repetition of steps in, a procurement",
  "text": "(1) At any time before a contract award is made or a framework agreement concluded, a relevant authority may—\n(a) choose not to award a contract or conclude a framework agreement, and abandon the procurement of relevant health services under these Regulations, or\n(b) go back to an earlier step in the selection process and repeat that step and subsequent steps.\n(2) A relevant authority may only decide to abandon a procurement under paragraph (1)(a) or go back to an earlier step under paragraph (1)(b) during the standstill period where 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 a relevant authority chooses not to award a contract or conclude a framework agreement and abandons the procurement under paragraph (1)(a), it must submit for publication a notice of that decision.\n(5) The notice in paragraph (4) must—\n(a) where the decision is made in a standstill period, be submitted for publication—\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, be submitted for publication within 30 days of the decision to abandon the procurement;\n(c) include the information set out in Schedule 17.\n(6) Where a relevant authority decides to repeat a step under paragraph (1)(b), the relevant authority must notify relevant providers of that decision in writing.\n(7) Paragraph (6) is satisfied where either—\n(a) a decision to repeat a step or steps has been taken in accordance with regulation 12(10)(b) and communicated to a provider in accordance with regulation 12(11), or\n(b) a decision to repeat a step or steps has been taken in accordance with regulation 12(12)(b) and communicated to a provider in accordance with regulation 12(13).\n(8) In this regulation—\n(a) a reference to a step in the selection process is to a step referred to in regulation 8 (direct award process 1), 9 (direct award process 2), 10 (most suitable provider process) or 11 (competitive process);\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": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/99/regulation/15",
    "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."
}