Regulation 49 Prior information notices

A contracting authority may make known its intentions of planned procurements through the publication of a prior information notice.

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 contracting authority wishing to publish a prior information notice must—

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.

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.

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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.

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