Part 13: General Schedule 5: Direct award justifications Defence and security
Paragraph 18 provides for direct awards for defence and security contracts relating to the supply of air or maritime transport services to the armed forces or security services in order for them to be deployed, or while deployed, outside the United Kingdom where the suppliers of such services cannot guarantee that the terms of any tender would remain in effect for 10 days from the date of tender submission.
	Paragraph 19 permits contracting authorities which could rely on the contract modification grounds in sub paragraphs (2) and (3) to modify a contract to instead directly award a new contract covering the same matters as a modification would cover. This is only permissible if the new contract would be a qualifying defence contract within the meaning of section 14(2) of the Defence Reform Act 2014.
	Paragraph 20 permits the direct award of a defence authority contract that is not a defence and security contract only because section 7(1)(g) (or, in the case of a framework, section 7(1)(g) and 2) applies where it is necessary to enhance or maintain the operational capability, effectiveness, readiness for action, safety or security of the armed forces.