{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-services-provider-selection-regime-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-18.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/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Contracts based on a framework agreement",
  "text": "(1) A contract based on a framework agreement may only be awarded by a relevant authority in accordance with this regulation.\n(2) A relevant authority may award a contract based on a framework agreement.\n(3) Contracts between a relevant authority and provider based on a framework agreement must not entail substantial modifications to the terms laid down in that framework agreement.\n(4) Where a framework agreement is concluded between a relevant authority and a single provider, a relevant authority may award a contract without a competition in accordance with that framework agreement.\n(5) Where a framework agreement is concluded with more than one provider, a relevant authority may award a contract with or without a competition.\n(6) The decision under paragraph (5) is at the discretion of the relevant authority but must be made in accordance with the 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/18",
    "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."
}