{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996/regulation-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996/regulation-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2911",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/23",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Contract award notice",
  "text": "(1) A utility which has awarded a supply, works or Part A or Part B services contract (other than one excluded or exempted from the application of these Regulations by regulations 6 to 10) shall no later than two months after the award, send to the Official Journal a notice, substantially corresponding to the form set out in Part F of Schedule 5 and including the information therein specified.\n(2) A utility may indicate that any of the information included in paragraphs 6 and 9 of the contract award notice is of a sensitive commercial nature, and require that it be not published or, in the case of a Part B services contract, state in the contract award notice whether it agrees to the notice’s publication.\n(3) Where a utility has awarded a services contract for services falling within category 8 of Part A of Schedule 4 it may, if the contract was awarded in accordance with regulation 16(1)(b), insert in paragraph 3 of the contract award notice only the title of the category of services: if the services contract was not awarded in accordance with regulation 16(1)(b), the utility may provide limited information at paragraph 3 of the contract award notice if the information which would otherwise be given is of a commercially sensitive nature, provided that the information given is no less detailed than that already provided in either its call for competition, in accordance with regulation 15(2), or where a qualification system is used, than that recorded in accordance with regulation 18(9).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/2418",
      "affecting_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/46",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Contracts (Works, Services and Supply) and Utilities Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/46",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Contracts (Works, Services and Supply) and Utilities Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/46",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Contracts (Works, Services and Supply) and Utilities Contracts (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2911/regulation/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:57.250352+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."
}