{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-49.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/446",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/49",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Prior information notices",
  "text": "(1) A contracting authority may make known its intentions of planned procurements through the publication of a prior information notice.\n(2) A prior information notice must contain the information set out in section I of Part B of Annex V to the Directive , but as if—\n(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\n(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.\n(3) A contracting authority wishing to publish a prior information notice must—\n(a) submit it for publication in accordance with regulation 52 (publication on the UK e-notification service); or\n(b) publish it on the contracting authority's buyer profile in accordance with regulation 53 (publication otherwise than on the UK e-notification service).\n(4) Where the prior information notice is published by the contracting authority on its buyer profile, the contracting authority must submit for publication, in accordance with regulation 52 (publication on the UK e-notification service), a notice of the publication on its buyer profile.\n(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 , 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.\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) The 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.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 49(2)(a)(b) and words inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(a) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 49(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(b)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 49(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(b)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 49(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 49(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(d)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 49(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(d)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 49(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(32)(e) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 49(6) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 4(12)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Reg. 49(7) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 4(12)(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Word in reg. 49(8) substituted (30.5.2023) by The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 4(12)(b) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Reg. 49(9) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 4(12)(c) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
}