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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-12",
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  "legislation": "asp/2014/12",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
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  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Contracts for health or social care services",
  "text": "(1) Despite section 8, a contracting authority may award a contract for a health or social care service without seeking offers in relation to the proposed contract.\n(2) In relation to a regulated procurement where, by virtue of subsection (1), a contracting authority does not seek offers, section 23(1) does not apply.\n(3) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision specifying what is a health or social care service for the purposes of subsection (1) and section 13(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 12 in force at 18.4.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/30, art. 3 (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/12/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:09.509038+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."
}