The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015

Automatic Suspension of authority power to proceed with contract awardS

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89.—(1) Without prejudice to the application of any relevant standstill period, where proceedings under this Part are served on a contracting authority in relation to a contract that has not been entered into, a framework agreement that has not been concluded or a dynamic purchasing system that has not been established, the contracting authority must not enter into the contract, conclude the framework agreement or establish the dynamic purchasing system unless—

(a)the proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of; or

(b)the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition.