{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Consortia",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation a “consortium” means two or more persons, at least one of whom is an economic operator, acting jointly for the purpose of being awarded a contract.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a utility shall not treat the tender of a consortium as ineligible nor decide not to include a consortium amongst those economic operators from which it will make the selection of economic operators to be invited to tender for or to negotiate a contract or be admitted to a dynamic purchasing system on the grounds that the consortium has not formed a legal entity for the purpose of tendering for or negotiating the contract or being admitted to a dynamic purchasing system.\n(3) Where a utility awards a 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(4) In these Regulations references to an economic operator where the economic operator is a consortium include 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/ssi/2006/2/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:22:06.422881+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."
}