PART 4MISCELLANEOUS OBLIGATIONS
CHAPTER 8BELOW-THRESHOLD PROCUREMENTS
Scope of Chapter 8109
1
Subject to paragraphs (2) and (5), this Chapter applies to procurements by contracting authorities with respect to public contracts where Part 2 does not apply because the estimated value of the procurement is less than the relevant threshold mentioned in regulation 5.
2
This Chapter does not apply in any of the following cases:—
a
where Part 2 would not have applied even if the estimated value of the procurement had been equal to or greater than the relevant threshold mentioned in regulation 5;
b
where the contracting authority is a central government authority and the procurement has a value net of VAT estimated to be less than £10,000;
c
where the contracting authority is—
i
a sub-central contracting authority or an NHS Trust, and
ii
the procurement has a value net of VAT estimated to be less than £25,000;
d
the procurement of health care services for the purposes of the NHS within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 201365.
3
For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b) and (c) and regulation 111(2), the estimated value of the procurement shall be calculated on the basis set out in regulation 6(1) to (5), (7) to (10) and (16) to (19), but as if the reference to a call for competition in regulation 6(7) were a reference to the publication of information on Contracts Finder in accordance with regulation 110.
4
A procurement shall not be subdivided with the effect of preventing it from falling within the scope of this Chapter, unless justified by objective reasons.
5
Regulations 110 and 112 do not apply where the contracting authority is a maintained school or an Academy.