PART 3Award of public contracts and procedures

CHAPTER 1Preliminary steps

17Preliminary market engagement notices

(1)

If a contracting authority carries out preliminary market engagement, the authority must—

(a)

publish a preliminary market engagement notice before publishing a tender notice, or

(b)

provide reasons for not doing so in the tender notice.

(2)

A “preliminary market engagement notice” means a notice setting out—

(a)

that the contracting authority intends to conduct, or has conducted, preliminary market engagement, and

(b)

any other information specified in regulations under section 95.

F1(3)

This section does not apply to a private utility, F2...