{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-supply-contracts-regulations-1995/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-supply-contracts-regulations-1995/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/201",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-supply-contracts-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Consortia",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation a “consortium” means 2 or more persons, at least one of whom is a supplier, acting jointly for the purpose of being awarded a public supply contract.\n(2) A contracting authority shall not treat the tender of a consortium as ineligible nor decide not to include a consortium amongst those persons from whom it will make the selection of persons to be invited to tender for or to negotiate a public supply contract on the grounds that that consortium has not formed a legal entity for the purpose of tendering for or negotiating the contract; but where a contracting authority awards a public supply contract to a consortium it may, if to do so is justified for the satisfactory performance of the contract, require the consortium to form a legal entity before entering into, or as a term of, the contract.\n(3) In this part of these Regulations references to a supplier where the supplier is a consortium includes a reference to each person who is a member of that consortium.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/201/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:49.358725+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."
}