{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-contracts-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-51.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/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Contract award notices",
  "text": "(1) Not later than 30 days after the award of a contract or conclusion of a framework agreement, a contracting authority must submit for publication in accordance with regulation 52 (publication on the UK e-notification service) a contract award notice on the results of the procurement procedure.\n(2) Such notices must—\n(a) contain the information set out in part D of Annex V to the Directive, but as if—\n(i) in paragraph 9, “Article 67” were a reference to regulation 67 (contract award criteria) of these Regulations,\n(ii) in paragraph 11(b), the words “Member State or from a third” were omitted,\n(iia) in paragraph 13, the words “or the highest tender and lowest tender taken into consideration” were omitted,\n(iii) paragraph 15 (financing by EU funds) were omitted,\n(iv) in paragraph 17, “in the Official Journal of the European Union” read “on the UK e-notification service (within the meaning of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015)”, and\n(v) in paragraph 18, “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, and\n(b) be submitted for publication in accordance with regulation 52 (publication on the UK e-notification service),\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Paragraph (1) does not apply where the contract awarded is a contract based on a framework agreement.\n(5) In the case of the award of a contract based upon a dynamic purchasing system, a contracting authority must either—\n(a) submit for publication in accordance with regulation 52 (publication on the UK e-notification service) a contract award notice within 30 days after the award of each such contract; or\n(b) group notices referred to in sub-paragraph (a) on a quarterly basis, in which case the authority must submit for publication the grouped notices within 30 days of the end of each quarter.\n(6) A contracting authority may withhold from publication information on the contract award or the conclusion of the framework agreement where the release of the information—\n(a) would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest;\n(b) would prejudice the commercial interests of any person; or\n(c) might prejudice fair competition between economic operators.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 51(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(34)(a)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(34)(a)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. 51(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 4(34)(b) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 51(2)(a)(iia) inserted (coming into force in accordance with s. 7(1) of the amending Act) by Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Act 2024 (c. 6), Sch. para. 14 (with Sch. paras. 23-26)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 51(3) omitted (30.5.2023) by virtue of The Public Procurement (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/124), regs. 2, 4(13) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in reg. 51(5)(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(34)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51(5)(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(34)(d) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in reg. 51(5)(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(34)(c) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/446/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:12.146487+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}