Information about contract award procedures
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(1) A contracting authority which has awarded a public works contract shall, within 15 days of the date on which it receives a request from any contractor who was unsuccessful (whether pursuant to regulation 11(7), 12(4), 12(5), 13(7), 13(8) or 20), inform that contractor of the reasons why he was unsuccessful and, if the contractor was unsuccessful as a result of the evaluation of offers made in accordance with regulation 20, the name of the person awarded the contract.
(2) A contracting authority shall prepare a record in relation to each public works contract awarded by it specifying–
(a)the name and address of the contracting authority;
(b)the work or works to be carried out under the contract and the value of the consideration to be given under it;
(c)the names of the persons whose offers were evaluated in accordance with regulation 20 and, where the contracting authority has used the restricted or negotiated procedure, the reasons for their selection;
(d)the names of the persons who were unsuccessful pursuant to regulation 11(7), 12(4), 12(5), 13(7) or 13(8);
(e)the name of the person to whom the contract was awarded and the reasons fo r having awarded the contract to him;
(f)if known to the contracting authority, the works under the contract which the person to whom the contract has been awarded intends to sub-contract to another person;
(g)in the case of a contracting authority which used the negotiated procedure, which of the circumstances specified in regulation 10(2) constituted the grounds for using that procedure.
(3) If the Commission requests a report in relation to a public works contract containing the information specified in paragraph (2) above, the contracting authority shall send a written report containing that information, or the main features of it, to the Treasury for onward transmission to the Commission.
(4) Where a contracting authority decides not to award a public works contract in respect of which a contract notice was published nor to seek offers in relation to another public works contract for the same purpose it shall inform the Official Journal of that decision and shall, if so requested by any contractor who submitted an offer or who applied to be included amongst the persons to be selected to tender for or negotiate the contract, the reasons for its decision.