The Procurement Regulations 2024

Contract details notices: frameworks

33.—(1) This regulation sets out other information which must be included in a contract details notice published under section 53(1) of the PA 2023 where the public contract is a framework.

(2) The information is—

(a) the same information referred to in regulation 32(2)(a) to (q), except sub-paragraph (h),

(b) the contracting authorities entitled to award public contracts in accordance with the framework (whether by listing the names of those authorities or by describing categories of authorities),

(c) the term of the framework,

(d) whether the framework is awarded under an open framework,

(e) where the framework was awarded under an open framework, the unique identifier for the procurement of the last framework awarded under the open framework (unless no framework has previously been awarded under the open framework),

(f) where the framework was awarded under an open framework, the estimated end date of the open framework,

(g) whether the public contract was awarded—

(i) following an open procedure,

(ii) following a competitive flexible procedure, or

(iii) directly, in accordance with section 41 or 43 of the PA 2023,

(h) whether the framework provides for fees to be charged to a supplier in accordance with the framework and, if so, details of the fixed percentage by which they will be charged in accordance with section 45(7) of the PA 2023,

(i) the price payable, or mechanism for determining the price payable, under a public contract awarded in accordance with the framework, and

(j) details of the selection process to be applied on the award of a contract in accordance with the framework.

(3) Nothing in this regulation prevents a contracting authority from publishing other information that relates to the same procurement in the notice.