OGC Guidance on Supported Businesses and Factories                     View/Download PDF

Article 19 of the new public sector procurement Directive states: "Reserved Contracts Member states may reserve the right to participate in public contract award procedures to sheltered workshops or provide for such contracts to be performed in the context of sheltered employment programmes where most of the employees concerned are handicapped persons who, by reason of the nature or the seriousness of their disabilities, cannot carry on occupations under normal conditions.  The contract notice shall make reference to this position."