{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2024/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2024/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/716",
  "legislation_title": "The Procurement Act 2023 (Commencement No. 3 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023-commencement-no-3-and-transitional-and-saving-provisions-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions relating to repeat services or works under a contract awarded under the 2011 Regulations",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies for the purposes of determining whether a contracting authority may award a public contract directly under section 41 of the Act (direct award in special cases) in a case where—\n(a) the public contract concerns the supply of services or works by the existing supplier that are a repetition of existing services or works, and\n(b) the existing services or works were supplied under a contract or framework agreement that was awarded in accordance with the 2011 Regulations.\n(2) The direct award justification in paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the Act (direct award justifications) has effect as if—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), “goods,”, in each place it occurs, were omitted,\n(b) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) “goods,” and “public” were omitted, and\n(ii) for “in accordance with a competitive tendering procedure” there were substituted “otherwise than in accordance with regulation 16 of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011”,\n(c) for paragraph (b) there were substituted—\n“(b) a contract notice in respect of that earlier contract or framework agreement contained a statement complying with the requirements of regulation 16(6)(a) of the Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011.”, and\n(d) in paragraph 9 of that Schedule—\n(i) for “paragraphs 7 and” there were substituted “paragraph”, and\n(ii) “goods,” in each place it occurs in the first definition, and where it occurs in the second definition, were omitted.\n(3) In paragraph (1)—\n“existing services or works” means services or works already supplied, or contracted to be supplied, to the contracting authority;\n“existing supplier” means the supplier that has already supplied, or contracted to supply, the existing services or works.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at made date"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/716/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:28:41.205558+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."
}