PART 3PARTICULAR PROCUREMENT REGIMES
CHAPTER 1Social and other specific services
Publication of notices91
1
Utilities intending to award a contract for the services referred to in regulation 90 shall make known their intention by any of the following means—
a
a contract notice;
b
a periodic indicative notice, which shall—
i
be published continuously;
ii
refer specifically to the types of services that will be the subject-matter of the contracts to be awarded; and
iii
indicate that the contracts will be awarded without further publication and invite interested economic operators to express their interest in writing; or
c
a notice on the existence of a qualification system, which shall be published continuously.
2
Paragraph (1) shall not apply where a negotiated procedure without prior call for competition could have been used, in accordance with regulation 50, for the award of a service contract.
3
Utilities that have awarded a contract for the services referred to in regulation 90 shall make known the results by mean of a contract award notice.
4
Utilities may, however, group contract award notices on a quarterly basis, in which case they shall send the grouped notices within 30 days of the end of each quarter.
5
The notices referred to in paragraphs (1), (3) and (4) shall contain the information referred to in the relevant part of Annex XVIII to the Utilities Contracts Directive.
6
Utilities shall send the notices referred to in this regulation for publication in accordance with regulation 71.