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.