Overview
The guidance documents are intended to provide technical guidance and help with interpretation and understanding of the Procurement Act 2023.
The guidance documents should be read in conjunction with the Procurement Act 2023 and its associated regulations and are aimed at procurement practitioners and commercial policy leads in contracting authorities. They are intended to provide technical guidance and help with interpretation and understanding of the Procurement Act 2023.
Contracting authorities need to be able to award contracts that are not always 100% goods, 100% services or 100% works. Contracts can therefore comprise a mixture of two or more different categories. Contracting authorities may also need to award contracts of either one type (such as a concession contract, or a light-touch contract), or of a mixture of different types (for example a concession contract for services that are for military purposes).
Contracts involving different categories or types will become public contracts above different value threshold levels. Contracts of different types (such as concessions, light touch contracts, defence and security, and utilities contracts - which are categorised as ‘special regime’ contracts) are also subject to different applications of the rules in the Procurement Act 2023 (Act).
It is therefore important that contracting authorities know how to designate any contracts they wish to award that might comprise a mixture of different categories or types.
Legal framework
- Section 5
- Schedule 1, paragraph 4
- Section 10
Other guidance relevant to this area
- Thresholds
- Valuation of contracts
- Special regimes (concessions, utilities, light touch, defence and security)