PART 2RULES APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS

CHAPTER 3CONDUCT OF THE PROCEDURE

SECTION 2Publication and transparency

Periodic indicative noticesI165

1

A utility may make known its intentions of a planned procurement through the publication of a periodic indicative notice.

2

A periodic indicative notice must contain the information set out in section I of Part A of Annex VI to the Utilities Contracts DirectiveF1, but as if both references to “dispatch of the notice” in paragraph 4 were references to the submission of the notice to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations.

3

A utility wishing to publish a periodic indicative notice must—

a

F2submit it for publication in accordance with regulation 69 (F3publication on the UK e-notification service); or

b

publish it on the utility’s buyer profile in accordance with regulation 70 (publication at national level).

4

Where the utility intends to publish the periodic indicative notice on its buyer profile, the utility must F4submit for publication, in accordance with regulation 69 (F5publication on the UK e-notification service), a notice of the publication on its buyer profile.

5

The notice of publication referred to in paragraph (4) must contain the information set out in Part B of Annex VI to the Utilities Contracts DirectiveF6, but as if “date of dispatch” in paragraph 5 were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations.

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F10The period covered by a periodic indicative notice must be a maximum of 12 months from the date on which the notice is sent for publication.

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