Commentary on Sections Part 2: Single Source Contracts Section 37: Provision of other services to Secretary of State
131.This section enables the SSRO and the Secretary of State to agree that the SSRO will provide assistance or other services to the Secretary of State or an authorised person. This is not a duty as the SSRO will consider the provision of any such further work in the context of its overall resource capacity. The SSRO may separately charge the Secretary of State for any work undertaken as a result of a request under this section (subsection (2)(b)), and any such costs will be excluded from the SSRO’s assessment of the funding adjustment under section 19(2).