Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 2: Competitive award Section 25: Sub-contracting specifications
This section sets out a specific provision whereby a contracting authority can require a supplier to sub-contract the supply of goods, services or works to another supplier.
	Subsection (1) provides that subsection (2) applies where a contracting authority could justify a direct award to a particular supplier in line with the criteria set out in section 41 (direct award in special cases), such as for technical reasons or when a supplier has exclusive rights.
	Subsection (2) sets out that where a contracting authority awards a contract for the supply of goods, services or works under section 19 (award of public contracts following a competitive tendering procedure), the contracting authority may require a supplier to sub-contract the supply of goods, works or services to a particular supplier where the conditions for a direct award under section 41 of the supply of goods, works or services to that supplier are met.