UK Statutory Instrument 2011 United Kingdom

Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations 2011

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At a glance

Enforced by

CCS, UK Government

What's here

2 compliance obligations

Penalty landscape

1 of 2 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 1 has no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Who this Act binds

Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.

Any Person 1

Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.

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Any Person also bound by 749 other Acts (top 5 shown)

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Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 86 duties

What this Act requires

Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.

Part 1 — GENERAL

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s.002

Review

s.004

Contracting authorities

s.005

Economic operators

s.006

Application

s.007

General exclusions

s.008

Reserved contracts

s.009

Thresholds

s.010

Confidential information

s.011

Classified information

Part 2 — TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

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s.012

Technical specifications in the contract documents

s.013

Variants

Part 3 — PROCEDURES LEADING TO THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT

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s.014

Prior information notices

s.015

Selection of contract award procedures

s.016

Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice

s.017

The restricted procedure

s.018

The negotiated procedure

s.019

The competitive dialogue procedure

s.020

Framework agreements

s.021

Electronic auctions

s.022

Central purchasing bodies

Part 4 — SELECTION OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS

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s.023

Criteria for the rejection of economic operators

s.024

Information as to economic and financial standing

s.025

Information as to technical or professional ability

s.026

Supplementary information

s.027

Official lists of approved economic operators

s.028

Consortia

s.029

Corporations

s.030

Notification

Part 5 — THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT

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s.031

Criteria for the award of a contract

s.032

Contract award notice

s.033

Information about contract award procedures

s.034

Standstill period

Part 6 — MATTERS RELATING TO A CONTRACT

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s.035

Obligations relating to taxes, environmental protection, employment protection and working conditions

s.036

Conditions for performance of contracts

s.037

Sub-contracting

s.038

Security of information

s.039

Security of supply

Part 7 — RULES APPLICABLE TO SUB-CONTRACTING

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s.040

Scope

s.041

Principles

s.042

Thresholds and rules on advertising

s.043

Award of a sub-contract without publication of a sub-contract notice

s.044

Criteria for qualitative selection of sub-contractors

s.045

Rules to be applied

Part 8 — MISCELLANEOUS

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s.046

Statistical and other reports

s.047

Provision of reports

s.048

Publication of notices

s.049

Means of communication

Part 9 — Applications to the Court

s.051

Duty owed to economic operators

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Contracting authorities must comply with duties toward economic operators Crown / Minister / Government department

s.063

Penalties in addition to, or instead of, ineffectiveness

Unlimited fine

Violations of public procurement rules for defence contracts Any Person

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s.050

Interpretation of Part 9

s.052

Enforcement of duties through the Court

s.053

General time limits for starting proceedings

s.054

Special time limits for seeking a declaration of ineffectiveness

s.055

Starting proceedings

s.056

Contract-making suspended by challenge to award decision

s.057

Interim orders

s.058

Remedies where the contract has not been entered into

s.059

Remedies where the contract has been entered into

s.060

Grounds for ineffectiveness

s.061

General interest grounds for not making a declaration of ineffectiveness

s.062

The consequences of ineffectiveness

s.064

Ineffectiveness etc in relation to specific contracts based on a framework agreement

s.065

Injunctions against the Crown

Part 9A — REGULATION-MAKING POWERS

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s.general provisions about regulations under this pa

General provisions about regulations under this Part

s.modification of the 1958 list for the purposes of

Modification of the 1958 List for the purposes of these Regulations

s.requirements relating to equipment for electronic

Requirements relating to equipment for electronic receipt of documents

Part 10 — Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions

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s.066

Consequential amendments, repeals and revocations

s.067

Transitional provisions

Schedules

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s.001

ACTIVITIES CONSTITUTING WORKS

s.003

PROFESSIONAL OR TRADE REGISTERS

Other sections — not classified into a Part

These sections exist in the Act but the contents-of-Parts walker did not place them under a Part. Likely amendments or sections inserted out of the original Part structure.

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s.application of regulation a66 to utilities and sub

Application of regulation A66 to utilities and sub-central contracting authorities

s.contractual provisions relating to the processing

Contractual provisions relating to the processing of electronic invoices

s.modifications of annex 4 to the defence and securi

MODIFICATIONS OF ANNEX 4 TO THE DEFENCE AND SECURITY PROCUREMENT DIRECTIVE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THESE REGULATIONS

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Enforcement and responsible bodies

The regulators that administer or enforce this legislation.

CCS

Primary

Crown Commercial Service

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