Part 2General duties and procurement strategies
General duties
8General duties
(1)
A contracting authority must, in carrying out a regulated procurement—
(a)
treat relevant economic operators equally and without discrimination,
(b)
act in a transparent and proportionate manner.
(2)
A contracting authority must also comply with the sustainable procurement duty.
(3)
However, a contracting authority must not do anything in pursuance of subsection (2) that would conflict with its duty under subsection (1).
(4)
A relevant economic operator is an economic operator who is a national of, or is established in—
(a)
a member State, or
(b)
Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.
(5)
Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to an EU-regulated procurement.