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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/schedule-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/schedule-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/5",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Procurement under cross-border arrangements",
  "text": "Provision of these Regulations\nRegulation 5 (mixed procurement covering the same activity)\nRegulation 6 (procurement covering several activities)\nRegulation 15 (thresholds)\nRegulation 16 (estimating value)\nRegulation 24 (mixed procurement covering the same activity and involving defence and security aspects)\nRegulation 25 (procurement covering several activities and involving defence or security aspects)\nRegulation 26 (contracts and design contests involving defence and security aspects which are awarded or organised pursuant to international rules)\nRegulation 35 (economic operators)\nRegulation 37 (confidentiality)\nRegulation 38 (rules applicable to communication)\nRegulation 39 (nomenclatures)\nRegulation 40 (conflicts of interest)\nRegulation 41A (conditions relating to the GPA)\nRegulation 41B (conditions relating to international agreements by which the United Kingdom is bound, other than the GPA)\nRegulation 42 (choice of procedures)\nRegulation 43 (open procedure)\nRegulation 44 (restricted procedure)\nRegulation 45 (negotiated procedure with prior call for competition)\nRegulation 46 (competitive dialogue)\nRegulation 47 (innovation partnership)\nRegulation 48 (use of the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition)\nRegulation 49 (framework agreements)\nRegulation 50 (dynamic purchasing systems)\nRegulation 51 (electronic auctions)\nRegulation 52 (electronic catalogues)\nRegulation 53 (centralised purchasing activities and central purchasing bodies)\nRegulation 54 (occasional joint procurement)\nRegulation 55 (procurement involving utilities from different member states)\nRegulation 57 (prior involvement of candidates or tenderers)\nRegulation 58 (technical specifications)\nRegulation 59 (labels)\nRegulation 60 (test reports, certificates and other means of proof)\nRegulation 61 (communication of technical specifications)\nRegulation 62 (variants)\nRegulation 63 (division of contracts into lots)\nRegulation 64 (setting time limits)\nRegulation 65 (periodic indicative notices)\nRegulation 66 (notices on the existence of a qualification system)\nRegulation 67 (contract notices)\nRegulation 68 (contract award notices)\nRegulation 69 (publication on the UK e-notification service)\nRegulation 70 (publication otherwise than on the UK e-notification service)\nRegulation 71 (electronic availability of procurement documents)\nRegulation 72 (invitations to candidates)\nRegulation 73 (informing applicants for qualification, candidates and tenderers)\nRegulation 74 (general principles)\nRegulation 75 (qualification systems)\nRegulation 76 (criteria for qualitative selection)\nRegulation 77 (reliance on the capacities of other entities)\nRegulation 78 (use of exclusion grounds and selection criteria provided for under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations)\nRegulation 79 (quality assurance standards and environmental management standards)\nRegulation 80 (contract award criteria)\nRegulation 81 (life-cycle costing)\nRegulation 82 (abnormally low tenders)\nRegulation 84A (electronic invoicing)\nRegulation 85 (subcontracting)\nRegulation 87 (termination of contracts)\nRegulation 88 (award of contracts for social and other specific services)\nRegulation 89 (publication of notices)\nRegulation 90 (principles of awarding contracts)\nRegulation 96 (reporting and documentation requirements)\nRegulation 97 (scope of Chapter)\nRegulation 98 (notices of decisions to award a contract or conclude a framework agreement)\nRegulation 99 (standstill period)\nRegulation 100 (duty owed to economic operators, including those from countries with whom the EU has a relevant international agreement other than the GPA)\nRegulation 100A (duty owed to economic operators from GPA parties)\nRegulation 100B (duty owed to economic operators from countries with whom the United Kingdom has an international agreement, other than the GPA)\nRegulation 101 (enforcement of duties through the courts)\nRegulation 102 (automatic suspension of utility’s power to proceed with contract award)\nRegulation 103 (powers and duties of the court)\nRegulation 104 (ineffectiveness orders)\nRegulation 105 (powers of the court: ineffectiveness order)\nRegulation 106 (general interest grounds for not making a declaration of ineffectiveness)\nRegulation 107 (other orders)\nRegulation 108 (financial penalties).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 4, 5 inserted (20.12.2025) by The Cross-Border Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/392), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/49/schedule/5",
    "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."
}