Overview
This regulation enables contracting authorities to ask suppliers to indicate in their tenders whether they intend to subcontract to third parties and any subcontractors.
Contracting authorities may also verify whether any of the regulation 57 (PCR 2015) grounds for exclusion apply to subcontractors. In such circumstances, contracting authorities must require suppliers to replace any subcontractor which meets one or more mandatory grounds for exclusion, and may require bidders to replace any subcontractor which meets one or more discretionary grounds for exclusion.
Contracting authorities are required, in the case of works contracts and certain services contracts, to require the supplier to provide the name, contact details and legal representatives of its subcontractors (in so far as known at the time). This notification must be made after the award of the contract and at the latest when the contract commences; the contracting authority must require the supplier to notify them of any changes to this information during the contract term.