General Overview of the Act Part 3 – Socially Responsible Public Procurement Chapter 2 Section 28 - Social public works clauses in subcontracts
76.As well as taking all reasonable steps to ensure that the social public works clauses are implemented in contracts (see section 25) this section requires contracting authorities to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the obligations are implemented where a contractor enters into a subcontract.
77.This section also gives some examples of what is meant by “reasonable steps”. In summary these are: ensuring that clauses with the same or substantially the same effect are included in subcontracts, and throughout subsequent contracts in the supply chain; ensuring that obligations within the clauses can be enforced; requiring contractors to obtain the consent of the contracting authority before appointing sub-contractors so that the authority can ensure that the clauses are included; requiring the contractor to inform the authority if it is not including the clauses in subcontracts; and requiring contractors to monitor the implementation of the clauses.