PART 1GENERAL
CHAPTER 3MATERIAL SCOPE
SECTION 2Excluded contracts and design contests; special provisions for procurement involving defence and security aspects
Procurement covering several activities and involving defence or security aspectsI125
1
This regulation applies where a procurement has as its subject a contract covering more than one activity, where one or more of those activities are covered by F1regulation 3(2) or the Defence and Security Regulations.
2
A utility may decide to undertake procurement for the award of—
a
separate contracts for the separate activities; or
b
a single contract.
3
Any decision to undertake a procurement for the award of a single contract must not be made for the purpose of excluding the procurement from the application of these Regulations or the Defence and Security Regulations.
4
Where a utility decides to undertake procurement for the award of separate contracts for separate activities the applicable law for the procurement of each separate activity will be determined by the characteristics of such activity.
5
Where a utility decides, in accordance with paragraph (6), to undertake a procurement for the award of a single contract and—
a
part of the contract is intended to cover an activity which is covered by F2regulation 3(2), the contract may be awarded without applying these Regulations; or
b
part of the contract is intended to cover an activity which is covered by the Defence and Security Regulations, the procurement may be undertaken in accordance with those Regulations, in which event these Regulations do not apply to such procurement.
6
A utility may only decide to undertake a procurement for the award of a single contract of a kind referred to in paragraph (5) where such decision is justified by objective reasons.
7
Paragraph (5)(b) is without prejudice to the thresholds and exclusions provided for by the Defence and Security Regulations.
8
Paragraph (5)(a) applies to a mixed contract to which both paragraph (5)(a) and (5)(b) could otherwise apply.