PART 2RULES IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC CONTRACTS DIRECTIVE

CHAPTER 2RULES ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS

SECTION 5Conduct of the Procedure

SUB-SECTION 6Publication and transparency

F2Publication on the UK e-notification service51

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The notices required by regulations F434, 48, 49, 50, 72, 75 and 79 to be F5submitted for publication in accordance with this regulation (and any corrigenda to those notices) F6shall be submitted to the UK e-notification service for publication.

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F7b

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2

Contracting authorities shall ensure that they are able to supply proof of the dates on which notices are F8submitted to the UK e-notification service for publication.

3

Where the F9provider of the UK e-notification service has given the contracting authority confirmation of F10... the publication of the information F11submitted, indicating the date of that publication, that confirmation shall constitute proof of publication.

4

Contracting authorities may F12submit notices in respect of public contracts to the F13UK e-notification service for publication even where they are not required by this Part to do soF14....

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In these Regulations, “the UK e-notification service” means a single web-based portal which is provided, for purposes which include the purposes of this Part, by or on behalf of the Cabinet Office.

6

The Minister for the Cabinet Office must make arrangements under which—

a

notices that are submitted to the UK e-notification service for publication are published in an area of the portal that is freely accessible to the public; and

b

confirmations are issued for the purposes of paragraph (3).

7

For the purposes of these Regulations, a notice of any description is submitted to the UK e-notification service if the information comprising the notice is entered in the portal in such form or manner as the portal may elicit it and in compliance with any specific instructions that are given within the portal about how the information, or any particular element of it, is to be entered.