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(1)This section applies where a contracting authority proposes to carry out a regulated procurement in relation to which the estimated value of the contract is equal to or greater than £4,000,000.
(2)The contracting authority must, before carrying out the procurement, consider whether to impose community benefit requirements as part of the procurement.
(3)The contracting authority must, in the contract notice relating to the procurement, include—
(a)a summary of the community benefit requirements it intends to include in the contract, or
(b)where it does not intend to include any such requirements, a statement of its reasons for not including any requirements.
(4)Where community benefit requirements are included in a contract, the contracting authority must include in the award notice a statement of the benefits it considers will be derived from those requirements.
(5)The Scottish Ministers may by order modify subsection (1) so as to substitute for the figure specified there for the time being such other figure as they consider appropriate.
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