PART 2 E+W+N.I. Scope and principles

CHAPTER 4 E+W+N.I. Specific Situations

Reserved concession contracts E+W+N.I.

24.—(1) Contracting authorities and utilities may—

(a) reserve the right to participate in concession contract award procedures to sheltered workshops and economic operators whose main aim is the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons, or

(b) provide for such concession contracts to be performed in the context of sheltered employment programmes,

provided that at least 30% of the employees of those workshops, economic operators or programmes are disabled or disadvantaged workers.

(2) In such cases, the concession notice or, in the case of a concession contract for social and other specific services listed in Schedule 3, the prior information notice, shall make reference to [F1 this regulation].

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 24(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1319), regs. 1(2), 8(15) (with Sch. paras. 3-5)