Section 41 - Procurement investigations
107.This section provides the Welsh Ministers with powers of investigation into how a contracting authority carries out public procurement. This could be in relation to a particular procurement or procurement activities more generally.
108.Under subsection (4) contracting authorities may be required by the Welsh Ministers to provide documents or other information for the purposes of an investigation. Subsection (5) provides that at the end of any investigation, the Welsh Ministers may make recommendations to the contracting authority, publish a report and/or lay a copy of any report before the Senedd.
