Part 13: General Schedule 2: Exempted contracts Part 2: Subject Matter Exempted Contracts Intelligence activities
Paragraph 26 exempts contracts for the purposes of carrying out, facilitating or supporting intelligence activities. While the intelligence services (Security Service, Secret Intelligence Service, and the Government Communication Headquarters) are excluded from the Act (see section 2(5)(b)) entirely, this provision provides an exemption for contracting authorities who are not part of the intelligence services, but who carry out facilitate or support intelligence activities.