xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

PART 2SRULES IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC CONTRACTS DIRECTIVE

CHAPTER 2SRULES ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS

SECTION 5SConduct of the Procedure

Prior information noticesS

49.—(1) A contracting authority may make known its intentions of planned procurements through the publication of a prior information notice.

(2) A prior information notice must contain the information set out in section I of Part B of Annex V to the Directive [F1, but as if—

(a)in paragraph 2, “the second and third sub-paragraph of Article 53(1)” were a reference to regulation 54(3) and (4) of these Regulations, and

(b)in paragraph 9, “date of dispatch” were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations].

(3) A contracting authority wishing to publish a prior information notice must—

(a)[F2submit] it for publication in accordance with regulation 52 ([F3publication on the UK e-notification service]); or

(b)publish it on the contracting authority's buyer profile in accordance with regulation 53 (publication [F4otherwise than on the UK e-notification service]).

(4) Where the prior information notice is published by the contracting authority on its buyer profile, the contracting authority must [F5submit] for publication, in accordance with regulation 52 ([F6publication on the UK e-notification service]), a notice of the publication on its buyer profile.

(5) The notice of publication referred to in paragraph (4) must contain the information set out in Part A of Annex V to the Directive [F7, but as if, in paragraph 6, “date of dispatch” were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations].

F8(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F9(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(8) [F10The] period covered by a prior information notice must be a maximum of 12 months from the date on which the notice is sent for publication.

F11(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments