Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 1: Preliminary steps Section 18: Duty to consider lots
Subsection (1) requires that before publishing a tender notice in respect of a public contract, a contracting authority must consider whether breaking a contract into smaller chunks, known as lots, is reasonable and appropriate.
	Subsection (2) requires the contracting authority to then either arrange for the award of the contract(s) by reference to lots, or provide reasons for not doing so, where the contracting authority considers under subsection (1) that lots would be reasonable and appropriate.