{"id":201,"date":"2017-11-01T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/?p=201"},"modified":"2017-11-01T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T09:45:05","slug":"new-policy-note-on-reserving-contracts-for-supported-businesses-published-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/public-procurement\/2017\/11\/01\/new-policy-note-on-reserving-contracts-for-supported-businesses-published-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New policy note on reserving contracts for supported businesses published today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0note provides advice on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/Government\/Procurement\/policy\/SPPNSSPANS\/policy-notes\/ScottishProcurementPolicyNotes2017\/SPPN042017Supportedbusinesses\">reserving contracts for supported businesses<\/a> and contains information on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determining whether an organisation meets the definition of a supported business for the purposes of public procurement legislation<\/li>\n<li>Identifying supported businesses<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring and reporting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of our policy notes can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.scot\/Topics\/Government\/Procurement\/policy\/SPPNSSPANS\/policy-notes\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out more about reserving contracts for supported businesses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,68,69],"tags":[70,72,12,71],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scottish-procurement","category-scottish-procurement-policy-note","category-supported-businesses","tag-policy-note","tag-reserved-contracts","tag-scottish-government-procurement","tag-supported-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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