General Overview of the Act Part 3 – Socially Responsible Public Procurement Chapter 3 – Reporting and Accountability Section 40 – Contracts register
105.Section 40(1) requires each contracting authority to maintain and publish a contracts register. Subsection (2) provides that a register contains information on ‘registrable contracts’ which are of a description prescribed by the Welsh Ministers in regulations. Subsection (3) sets out the information required to be captured in respect of each registrable contract: its name, date of award, estimated value, the address of the contractor’s principal place of business, subject matter, start date, end date and any period for which it may be extended, as well as any other information which may be set out within regulations made by the Welsh Ministers.
106.Subsection (4) provides that contracting authorities are not required to register any information which they consider would impede law enforcement or not be in the public interest, would prejudice the commercial interests of a person or competition between economic operators. Under subsection (5), the information about any contract may only be deleted from the contract after the contract has either been terminated or expired.