# The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015, Regulation 3A: Regulation of procurement by UK contracting authorities


(1) The provisions of these Regulations apply without modification where a UK contracting authority carries out a procurement under a devolved Scottish procurement arrangement and, as part of that arrangement, a contract is to be awarded following a procedure or other selection process carried out—
(a) jointly by that authority and one or more contracting authorities, or
(b) by a central purchasing body or equivalent which is a contracting authority.
(2) In respect of a procurement not falling within paragraph (1) but to which paragraph (3) applies—
(a) the provisions of these Regulations specified in column (1) of the table in schedule 7 apply in relation to that procurement, and
(b) where there is a modification specified in column (2) of that table in respect of a provision specified in column (1), that provision applies subject to that modification.
(3) This paragraph applies in relation to a procurement carried out by a UK contracting authority under a devolved Scottish procurement arrangement and, as part of that arrangement, a contract is to be awarded—
(a) in accordance with a framework agreement, or
(b) by reference to a dynamic purchasing system.
(4) In this regulation and regulation 3B—
“devolved Scottish procurement arrangement” has the meaning given in section 114(4) of the Procurement Act 2023,
“UK contracting authority” means a contracting authority within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Procurement Act 2023.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/446/regulation/3A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-3A
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