{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/single-source-contract-regulations-2014/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/single-source-contract-regulations-2014/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/3337",
  "legislation_title": "The Single Source Contract Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/single-source-contract-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Defence Reform Act 2014, and references to sections are to sections of that Act;\n“alternative pricing method” means one of the contract pricing methods described in Chapter 3 of Part 3;\n“business unit” means either—\n(a)a unit—\n(i)which carries on any activities for the purposes of an undertaking; and\n(ii)for which separate financial accounting statements are produced; or\n(b)an undertaking, or group of two or more undertakings, for which a single set of financial accounting statements is produced which is separate from the financial accounting statements of each of those undertakings;\n“competed rate” means the competed rate or price in accordance with the terms of the relevant framework agreement;\n“component”, in relation to a contract, has the meaning given by regulation 9A;\n“component completion date” has the meaning given by regulation 4(1A);\n“contract completion date” has the meaning given by regulation 4 (1);\n“contract price” has the meaning given by regulation 4A;\n“contract pricing method” means an alternative pricing method or a default pricing method;\n“cost recovery base” means the unit of measure to which a cost recovery rate is applied in order to calculate a cost under a contract;\n“cost recovery rate” means a rate calculated for a business unit that is used to determine a cost payable under a contract, being a rate per unit of a cost recovery base that is multiplied by the quantum of that cost recovery base to determine the cost;\n“default pricing method” means one of the contract pricing methods described in Chapter 2 of Part 3;\n“deliverable” means any goods, works or services which—\n(a)are provided under a contract; and\n(b)can be described using an output metric;\n“further group sub-contract” has the meaning given by regulation 13A(4);\n“group sub-contract” has the meaning given by regulation 13A(3);\n“output metric” means a quantifiable description of any goods, works or services (including a number, weight, dimension, time or physical capability, but not including a monetary value);\n“parent undertaking” has the meaning given by section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006 ;\n...\n“SME” has the meaning given in Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC of 6 May 2003 concerning the definition of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises ;\n“TCIF adjustment” means an adjustment made under section 16(1)(b);\n“the time of agreement” means—\n(a)in the case of a contract which is a qualifying defence contract by virtue of section 14(3), or a qualifying sub-contract—\n(i)the date the contract is entered into; or\n(ii)if the price payable under the contract is re-determined in accordance with the Schedule, the date of that re-determination;\n(b)in the case of a contract which is a qualifying defence contract by virtue of section 14(4) or (5)—\n(i)the date of the amendment mentioned in section 14(4)(c) or (5)(b); or\n(ii)if the price payable under the contract is re-determined in accordance with the Schedule, the date of that re-determination;\n(c) in the case of a component of a qualifying defence contract—\n(i)the date the component is entered into; or\n(ii)if the price payable under the component is re-determined in accordance with the Schedule, the date of that re-determination;\n“undertaking” has the meaning given by section 1161(1) of the Companies Act 2006;\n“working day” means any day excluding—\n(a)Saturday, Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 ; and\n(b)where a person gives the Secretary of State and the SSRO no less than 30 days' written notice of its intention to treat a day as a holiday, that day.\n(2) A reference to a report provided under Part 5 includes a contract pricing statement (regulation 23), a contract reporting plan (regulation 24), a contract costs statement (regulation 29), and information provided under regulation 30 (on-demand contract report).\n(3) A reference to a report provided under Part 6 includes an estimated rates agreement pricing statement under regulation 38.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2019) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1350), regs. 1(3), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2019) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1350), regs. 1(3), 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2024) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/420), regs. 1(2), 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Reg. 2(3) inserted (1.9.2019) by The Single Source Contract (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1106), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2006 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "O.J. L 124, p. 36-41, of 20 May 2003."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/3337/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:53:13.107571+00:00"
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  "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."
}