S.L. 601.03 · Part IV · Types of Procurement Procedures

Regulation 161. Reserved contracts

Reserved Contracts and Contracts For Social and Other Specific Services

Text of the consolidated version in force from 27 June 2025. Where this page and legislation.mt differ, legislation.mt prevails: official textThe Maltese and the English texts are both official; where they conflict, the Maltese text prevails. This page shows the English text.

(1) A contracting authority may reserve the right to participate in public procurement procedures to sheltered workshops and economic operators whose main aim is the social and professional integration of disabled or disadvantaged persons or may provide for such contracts to be performed in the context of sheltered employment programmes, provided that at least 30% of the employees of those workshops, economic operators or programmes are disabled or disadvantaged workers.

(2) The call for competition for reserved contracts shall make reference to this regulation.

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