PART 5 E+W+N.I.Remedies

CHAPTER 2 E+W+N.I.Applications to the court

[F1 Duty owed to economic operators from GPA parties E+W+N.I.

51A.— (1) The duty owed in accordance with regulation 50 is a duty owed also to an economic operator from a GPA party, but only where the agreement applies to the procurement concerned.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the GPA applies to a procurement if—

(a) the procurement may result in the award of a contract of any description; and

(b) at the relevant time—

(i) a GPA party has agreed with the United Kingdom that the GPA shall apply to a contract of that description; and

(ii) the economic operator is from that GPA party.

[F2 (3) In this regulation, “relevant time” means the date on which the contracting authority or utility submitted a concession notice in respect of the concession contract to the UK e-notification service or would have done so if it had been required by these Regulations to do so.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 51A inserted (11.6.2021) by The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/573), regs. 1(1), 3(4)

F2 Reg. 51A(3) substituted (16.8.2021) by The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/872), regs. 1(1), 3(3)