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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.