{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/54",
  "legislation_title": "Procurement Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-act-2023",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Preliminary market engagement notices",
  "text": "(1) If a contracting authority carries out preliminary market engagement, the authority must—\n(a) publish a preliminary market engagement notice before publishing a tender notice, or\n(b) provide reasons for not doing so in the tender notice.\n(2) A “preliminary market engagement notice” means a notice setting out—\n(a) that the contracting authority intends to conduct, or has conducted, preliminary market engagement, and\n(b) any other information specified in regulations under section 95.\n(3) This section does not apply to a private utility, ...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17(3) inserted (23.5.2024) by The Procurement Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/692), regs. 1(3), 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 17(3) omitted (4.7.2024) by virtue of The Procurement (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/782), regs. 1(3), 47(2) (with reg. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 127(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 24.2.2025 by S.I. 2024/716, Sch. (as amended by S.I. 2024/959, regs. 1(2), 2(7)(a))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T16:57:07.988577+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}