NotificationU.K.
30.—(1) Where a contracting authority decides, prior to the stage at which it makes a decision to which regulation 33(1) (award decision) applies, to exclude an applicant, the contracting authority shall notify the applicant of that exclusion.
(2) In this regulation, “applicant” means an economic operator which submitted an offer, applied to be included amongst the economic operators to be selected to tender for or to negotiate the contract, or applied to be a party to the framework agreement.
(3) For the purposes of this regulation, an applicant is excluded if, and only if—
(a)the applicant, or the applicant's tender, is excluded as mentioned in regulation 17(7), 18(9) or 19(10); or
(b)the applicant is not among those selected to be—
(i)invited to tender as mentioned in regulation 17(8);
(ii)invited to negotiate, as mentioned in regulation 18(10) or (25), or for the purposes of regulation 18(24); or
(iii)invited to participate, as mentioned in regulation 19(11) or (25), or for the purposes of regulation 19(24).