Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Reserving contracts to certain suppliers Section 32: Reserving contracts to supported employment providers
Subsection (1) allows the exclusion of suppliers that are not "supported employment providers" from a competitive flexible procedure. The contract will accordingly be reserved to supported employment providers.
	Subsections (2) and (3) set out the process. Under subsection (2), the procedure must provide for the exclusion. If it does, then under subsection (3) tenders from suppliers other than supported employment providers must be disregarded.
	Subsection (4) defines a "supported employment provider" as an organisation, organisations, or parts thereof, that specifically aims to provide employment, or employment-related support, to disabled or disadvantaged persons, and where at least 30% of the workforce of the organisation, organisations or relevant parts, is disabled or disadvantaged. This definition intends to capture such arrangements as are commonly referred to as employment programmes, to support the continued collaboration among organisations.