Retained EU Law SI 2014/24 United Kingdom

Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (Text with EEA relevance)

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Operator3 Contractor1 Any Person1

Plus 6 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

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Operator — also bound by 746 other Acts
Contractor — also bound by 173 other Acts
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.art029 Competitive procedure with negotiation Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Conduct competitive procurement with negotiation fairly and transparentlyLocal authority
s.art036 Electronic catalogues Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Follow procedural rules for electronic catalogues in procurementCrown / Minister / Government department
s.art042 Technical specifications Regulated
  • Prove that your tender meets performance or functional requirementsAny Person
s.art044 Test reports, certification and other means of proof Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Accept equivalent certificates and alternative proof of conformity in public procurementCrown / Minister / Government department
s.art056 General principles Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Award contracts only when all conditions are metCrown / Minister / Government department
s.art059 European Single Procurement Document Regulated
  • Submit European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) when bidding for public contractsOperator
s.art062 Quality assurance standards and environmental management standards Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Contracting authorities must accept equivalent quality and environmental certificatesLocal authority
s.art063 Reliance on the capacities of other entities Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Verify that subcontractors meet selection criteria and replace ineligible onesStatutory regulator
s.art064 Official lists of approved economic operators and certification by bodies established under public or private law Regulated
  • Prove you have access to group resources for list registrationOperator
s.art069 Abnormally low tenders Regulated
  • Explain abnormally low prices in public procurement tendersOperator
s.art071 Subcontracting Regulated
  • Notify contracting authority of subcontractors for works or on-site servicesContractor
97 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.annex iii para.1 The only text applicable for the purposes of this Directive...
s.annex iii para.2 Chapter 25: Salt, sulphur, earths and stone, plastering materials, lime...
s.annex ii para.1 In the event of any difference of interpretation between the...
s.annex ii para.2 Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on...
s.annex iv para.1 Tools and devices for the electronic receipt of tenders, requests...
s.annex iv para.2 the exact time and date of the receipt of tenders,...
s.annex vii para.1 For the purposes of this Directive:
s.annex vii para.2 ‘technical specification’ means one of the following: in the case...
s.annex vi para.1 Where contracting authorities have decided to hold an electronic auction,...
s.annex vi para.2 the features, the values for which will be the subject...
s.annex xiii para.1 Directive 2009/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council....
s.annex xi para.1 The relevant professional and trade registers and corresponding declarations and...
s.annex xi para.2 in Belgium the ‘Registre du Commerce’/‘Handelsregister’, and, in the case...
s.annex x para.1 ILO Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and the Protection...
s.art001 Subject-matter and scope
s.art002 Definitions
s.art003 Mixed procurement
s.art004 Threshold amounts
s.art005 Methods for calculating the estimated value of procurement
s.art006 Revision of the thresholds and of the list of central government authorities
s.art007 Contracts in the water, energy, transport and postal services sectors
s.art008 Specific exclusions in the field of electronic communications
s.art009 Public contracts awarded and design contests organised pursuant to international rules
s.art010 Specific exclusions for service contracts
s.art011 Service contracts awarded on the basis of an exclusive right
s.art012 Public contracts between entities within the public sector
s.art013 Contracts subsidised by contracting authorities
s.art014 Research and development services
s.art015 Defence and security
s.art016 Mixed procurement involving defence or security aspects
s.art017 Public contracts and design contests involving defence or security aspects which are awarded or organised pursuant to international rules
s.art018 Principles of procurement
s.art019 Economic operators
s.art020 Reserved contracts
s.art021 Confidentiality
s.art022 Rules applicable to communication
s.art023 Nomenclatures
s.art024 Conflicts of interest
s.art025 Conditions relating to the GPA and other international agreements
s.art026 Choice of procedures
s.art027 Open procedure
s.art028 Restricted procedure
s.art030 Competitive dialogue
s.art031 Innovation partnership
s.art032 Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication
s.art033 Framework agreements
s.art034 Dynamic purchasing systems
s.art035 Electronic auctions
s.art037 Centralised purchasing activities and central purchasing bodies
s.art038 Occasional joint procurement
s.art039 Procurement involving contracting authorities from different Member States
s.art040 Preliminary market consultations
s.art041 Prior involvement of candidates or tenderers
s.art043 Labels
s.art045 Variants
s.art046 Division of contracts into lots
s.art047 Setting time limits
s.art048 Prior information notices
s.art049 Contract notices
s.art050 Contract award notices
s.art051 Form and manner of publication of notices
s.art052 Publication at national level
s.art053 Electronic availability of procurement documents
s.art054 Invitations to candidates
s.art055 Informing candidates and tenderers
s.art057 Exclusion grounds
s.art058 Selection criteria
s.art060 Means of proof
s.art061 Online repository of certificates (e-Certis)
s.art065 Reduction of the number of otherwise qualified candidates to be invited to participate
s.art066 Reduction of the number of tenders and solutions
s.art067 Contract award criteria
s.art068 Life-cycle costing
s.art070 Conditions for performance of contracts
s.art072 Modification of contracts during their term
s.art073 Termination of contracts
s.art074 Award of contracts for social and other specific services
s.art075 Publication of notices
s.art076 Principles of awarding contracts
s.art077 Reserved contracts for certain services
s.art078 Scope
s.art079 Notices
s.art080 Rules on the organisation of design contests and the selection of participants
s.art081 Composition of the jury
s.art082 Decisions of the jury
s.art083 Enforcement
s.art084 Individual reports on procedures for the award of contracts
s.art085 National reporting and statistical information
s.art086 Administrative cooperation
s.art087 Exercise of the delegation
s.art088 Urgency procedure
s.art089 Committee procedure
s.art090 Transposition and transitional provisions
s.art091 Repeals
s.art092 Review
s.art093 Entry into force
s.art094 Addressees

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