The Public Procurement (Agreement on Government Procurement) (Thresholds) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 No. 1221

Amendments to the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016

5.—(1) The Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016 are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 16 (threshold amounts), in paragraph 1—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “£378,660” substitute “£426,955”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (b), for “£4,733,252” substitute “£5,336,937”.

(3) For “net”, where it occurs in the following places, substitute “inclusive”—

(a) regulation 16(1);

(b) in regulation 17 (methods for valuing the estimate value of the procurement)—

(i) paragraph (1);

(ii) paragraph (8);

(iii) paragraph (9);

(iv) paragraph (14);

(c) in regulation 94 (scope of Chapter 2)—

(i) sub-paragraph (a);

(ii) sub-paragraph (b).