{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-contracts-regulations-1991/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-contracts-regulations-1991/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2680",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Works Contracts Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-works-contracts-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Information as to economic and financial standing",
  "text": "–\n(1) Subject to regulation 18 and paragraph (2) below, in assessing whether a contractor meets any minimum standards of economic and financial standing required of contractors by the contracting authority for the purposes of regulations 11(7), 12(4) and 13(7), and selecting the contractors to be invited to tender for or to negotiate the contract in accordance with regulations 12(5) and 13(8), a contracting authority shall only take into account any of the following information (and it may require a contractor to provide such of that information as it considers it needs to make the assessment or selection)–\n(a) appropriate statements from the contractor’s bankers;\n(b) statement of accounts or extracts therefrom relating to the business of the contractor where publication of the statement is required under the law of the Member State in which the contractor is established;\n(c) a statement of the overall turnover of the business of the contractor and the turnover in respect of works in the 3 previous financial years of the contractor.\n(2) Where the information specified in paragraph (1) above is not appropriate in a particular case a contracting authority may require a contractor to provide other information to demonstrate the contractor’s economic and financial standing.\n(3) A contracting authority which requires information to be provided in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) above, shall specify in the contract notice or in the invitation to tender the information which the contractor must provide.\n(4) Where a contractor is unable for a valid reason to provide the information which the contracing authority has required, the contracting authority shall accept such other information provided by the contractor as the contracting authority considers appropriate.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/201",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Supply Contracts Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2680/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:33:49.566208+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."
}