{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-72.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/72",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Invitations to candidates",
  "text": "(1) In a restricted procedure, a competitive dialogue procedure, an innovation partnership and a negotiated procedure with prior call for competition, an invitation by a utility to selected candidates or to participants to submit a tender must be issued simultaneously and in writing.\n(2) In a competitive dialogue procedure, an innovation partnership and a negotiated procedure with or without prior call for competition, an invitation by a utility to selected candidates to participate must be issued simultaneously and in writing.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The invitations required by paragraphs (1) and (2) must—\n(a) include a reference to the electronic address at which the procurement documents have been made directly available by electronic means; or\n(b) be accompanied by the procurement documents, where those documents have not been the subject of unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, for the reasons referred to in regulation 71(4) or (5) (electronic availability of procurement documents) and have not already been made otherwise available.\n(5) The invitations required by paragraphs (1) and (2) must also contain at least the following information—\n(a) where tenders are to be submitted, the deadline for the receipt of the tenders, the address to which the tenders must be sent and the language or languages in which the tenders must be drawn up;\n(b) in the case of competitive dialogue, the date and the address set for the start of consultation and the language or languages to be used;\n(c) a reference to the call for competition published;\n(d) an indication of any documents to be attached;\n(e) the criteria for the award of the contract, where they are not indicated in the notice on the existence of a qualification system used as a means of calling for competition;\n(f) the relative weighting of criteria for the award of the contract or, where appropriate, the order of importance of such criteria, where they are not given in the contract notice, the notice on the existence of a qualification system or the specifications.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 72(3) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(20)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 72(4) substituted (30.5.2023) by The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(20)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 72(6) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 5(20)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 72 in force at 18.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/49/regulation/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:25:30.893927+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."
}