Regulation 9 Annual notice of expected public supply contracts

Subject to paragraph (2) below, a GATT contracting authority shall, as soon as possible after the commencement of each of its financial years, send to the Official Journal a notice in a form substantially corresponding to that set out in Part A of Schedule 3 and containing the information therein specified in respect of the public supply contracts in relation to which it expects to seek offers leading to an award during that financial year.

The obligation under paragraph (1) above shall apply only to those public supply contracts which are for the purchase or hire of goods of a type which the contracting authority expects at the date of despatch of the notice to purchase or hire under public supply contracts which have an estimated value (within the meaning of regulation 7) which in aggregate for that type of goods is, or is more than, 750,000 ECU.