Regulation 52 Publication on the UK e-notification serviceF12

The notices required by regulations 49, 50, 51, 72, 75 and 78 to be F1submitted for publication in accordance with this regulation must—

Contracting authorities must ensure that they are able to supply proof of the dates on which notices are F4submitted to the UK e-notification service for publication.

Where the F5UK e-notification service has given the contracting authority confirmation of F6... the publication of the information F7submitted, indicating the date of that publication, that confirmation shall constitute proof of publication.

A contracting authority may F8submit notices in respect of public contracts to the F9UK e-notification service for publication even where the authority is not required to do so by these RegulationsF10....

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.

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.