{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-92",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-92.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/49",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-contracts-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/92",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "92",
  "heading": "Notices",
  "text": "(1) A utility that intends to carry out a design contest must call for competition by means of a contest notice which includes the information set out in Annex XIX to the Utilities Contracts Directive , but as if, in paragraph 15, “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(2) Where a utility intends to award a subsequent service contract under regulation 48(4)(f) (use of the negotiated procedure without prior call for competition) this must be indicated in the contest notice.\n(3) A utility that has held a design contest must—\n(a) make the results known by means of a notice which must include the information set out in Annex XX to the Utilities Contracts Directive , but as if, in paragraph 11, “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) submit such notice to the UK e-notification service within 30 days of the closure of the design contest.\n(4) A utility may withhold from publication information on the result of the contest 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.\n(5) The utility must submit the notices referred to in this regulation for publication in accordance with regulation 69 (publication on the UK e-notification service).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 92(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(52)(a) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 92(3)(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(52)(b)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 92(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), 6(52)(b)(ii)(aa) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 92(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), 6(52)(b)(ii)(bb) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 92(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(52)(c)(i) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 92(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Public Procurement etc. (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/468), regs. 1(2), 6(52)(c)(ii) (with sch. paras. 1-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 3 Ch. 2 modified (18.4.2016) by S.S.I. 2013/50, Sch. 3 para. 10(2)(b) (as substituted by The Utilities Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/49), reg. 1, sch. 3 para. 3(2)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 92 in force at 18.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/49/regulation/92",
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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."
}