{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-37.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "section/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Dynamic markets: removing members from the market",
  "text": "(1) A contracting authority must remove a supplier from a dynamic market if the authority considers that the supplier is an excluded supplier under section 57(1)(b) (debarment by reference to mandatory exclusion ground).\n(2) A contracting authority may remove a supplier from a dynamic market if—\n(a) the authority considers that the supplier—\n(i) is an excluded supplier under section 57(1)(a),\n(ii) does not satisfy the conditions for membership, or\n(iii) has, since becoming a member, become an excludable supplier, or\n(b) the authority discovers that, on becoming a member, the supplier was an excludable supplier.\n(3) The reference to a supplier becoming an excludable supplier includes a reference to a supplier becoming an excludable supplier by virtue of a discretionary exclusion ground that—\n(a) did not apply before the supplier became a member, or\n(b) applied before the supplier became a member by reference to different circumstances.\n(4) Before removing a supplier from a dynamic market, a contracting authority must inform the supplier of its decision to do so, together with reasons for the decision.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 37 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 37 in force at 24.2.2025 by S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/section/37",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:57:07.988577+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}