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Changes to the EU Public Procurement Thresholds from January 2012

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01/01/2012
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The European Commission has published the Sterling (£) equivalents of the new EU thresholds. The new thresholds will apply to all new procurement from 1 January 2012. The changes reflect variations between Euro and Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) over the last two years, SDRs being the unit of account used under the WTO Government Procurement Agreement to which the thresholds are aligned. A similar conversion is then made to take account for changes between Euro and Sterling over the same period. The revised thresholds are higher in Euro, but due to the weakness of Sterling over the last two years the UK thresholds have risen by a proportionately greater amount.

Table 1 - Public Sector Contracts


 Supplies
 Services Works
Entities listed in Schedule 1
 £113,057
(€130,000)

 £113,057
(€130,000)
 £4,348,350
(€5,000,000)
Other public sector contracting authorities
 £173,934
(€200,000)		 £173,934
(€200,000)		 £4,348,350
(€5,000,000)


Table 2 - Utilities Contracts (and Defence and Security Public Contracts Regulations)


 Supplies
 Services Works
All sectors (water, energy distribution, transport and postal services)
 £347,868
(€400,000)

 £347,868
(€400,000)
 £4,348,350
(€5,000,000)


In addition, although the EUR thresholds have not been changed, the £ equivalent for the thresholds for the small lots provision (exclusion from the obligation to aggregate the value of a number of contracts to meet a single requirement) are revised as followed:


For supply and services (EUR80000): £69,574 (currently £64,846)
For works (EUR1,000,000): £869,670 (currently £810,580).


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