Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Reserving contracts to certain suppliers Section 33: Reserving contracts to public service mutuals
Subsection (1) sets out that this section applies if the procurement is for a contract for "reservable light touch services" (as defined in subsection (7)) and has a maximum term of five years or less. The contract may accordingly be reserved for "qualifying public service mutuals" under this section.
	Subsections (2) to (4) set out the procedure. Under subsection (2), in a competitive flexible procedure, the contracting authority may provide that the procedure excludes suppliers that are not qualifying public service mutuals. Subsections (3) and (4) make it clear that in these circumstances the authority must disregard any tender from a supplier that is not a qualifying public service mutual.
	Subsection (5) defines a "qualifying public service mutual" as a "public service mutual" that has not entered into a comparable contract.
	Subsection (6) defines a "public service mutual".
	Subsection (7) defines "comparable contract" and "reservable light touch services".
	Subsection (8) allows an appropriate authority to specify in regulations which of the light touch services (that have been specified as such via regulations made under section 9 (light touch contracts)) are "reservable light touch services", and so reservable under this section.