Regulation 111. Variations and penalties

(1) The Minister may allow that variations and the imposition or remission of penalties in respect of such contracts be approved by the Minister charged with responsibility for that contracting authority, who may delegate his authority in writing to the Parliamentary Secretary, the Permanent Secretary or the Head of the contracting authority.

(2) Every six months the Head of the contracting authority shall publish in the Gazette a full list of all departmental contracts awarded by him with a value exceeding five thousand euro (€5,000) and a list of all cases involving variations which exceed the original contract values by more than five per cent. These two lists must include the name of the economic operator, the nature of the contracts, the original contract values and the final contract values, as the case may be: Provided that, without prejudice to regulation 79, in the case of contracting authorities listed under Schedule 16, the obligation established under this sub-regulation shall apply when these contracting authorities publish calls that are not regulated as an open procedure.

(3) The regulations under this Part shall not apply when a contracting authority is awarding a public contract to another contracting authority or to a central purchasing body unless the contracting authorities in question have any private capital participation.