Consortia
19.—(1) In this regulation a “consortium” means 2 or more persons, at least one of whom is a services provider, acting jointly for the purpose of being awarded a public services contract.
(2) A contracting authority shall not treat the tender of a consortium as ineligible nor decide not to include a consortium amongst those persons from whom it will make the selection of persons to be invited to tender for or to negotiate a public services contract on the grounds that the consortium has not formed a legal entity for the purposes of tendering for or negotiating the contract; but where a contracting authority awards a public services contract to a consortium it may require the consortium to for a legal entity before entering into, or as a term of, the contract.
(3) In these Regulations references to a services provider where the services provider is a consortium includes a reference to each person who is a member of that consortium.