The Utilities Contracts Regulations 1996

Contract award notice

23.—(1) A utility which has awarded a supply, works or Part A or Part B services contract (other than one excluded or exempted from the application of these Regulations by regulations 6 to 10) shall no later than two months after the award, send to the Official Journal a notice, substantially corresponding to the form set out in Part F of Schedule 5 and including the information therein specified.

(2) A utility may indicate that any of the information included in paragraphs 6 and 9 of the contract award notice is of a sensitive commercial nature, and require that it be not published or, in the case of a Part B services contract, state in the contract award notice whether it agrees to the notice’s publication.

(3) Where a utility has awarded a services contract for services falling within category 8 of Part A of Schedule 4 it may, if the contract was awarded in accordance with regulation 16(1)(b), insert in paragraph 3 of the contract award notice only the title of the category of services: if the services contract was not awarded in accordance with regulation 16(1)(b), the utility may provide limited information at paragraph 3 of the contract award notice if the information which would otherwise be given is of a commercially sensitive nature, provided that the information given is no less detailed than that already provided in either its call for competition, in accordance with regulation 15(2), or where a qualification system is used, than that recorded in accordance with regulation 18(9).