Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Exclusions and modifications Section 29: Excluding a supplier that is a threat to national security
Subsection (1) sets out that subsection (2) applies to a relevant contracting authority if it intends to disregard a tender or exclude a supplier on the basis of the national security discretionary exclusion ground in paragraph 14 of Schedule 7.
	Subsection (2) allows for exclusion on this basis only where the contracting authority has notified a Minister of the Crown and the Minister considers that the exclusion ground applies and the supplier’s tender should be disregarded or the supplier should be excluded.
	Subsection (3) cross refers to provisions in sections 26, 27 and 28 which provide for notification to a supplier that an associated supplier or intended sub-contractor is considered by the contracting authority to be a threat to national security. This is consistent with the rest of this section, which requires ministerial consideration and approval prior to a supplier being excluded or their tender disregarded where the discretionary national security exclusion ground applies.
	Subsection (4) defines a "relevant contracting authority" as any contracting authority other than a Minister of the Crown, a Government department, the Corporate Officer of the House of Commons or the Corporate Officer of the House of Lords.