PART 3PARTICULAR PROCUREMENT REGIMES

CHAPTER 2Rules governing design contests

Notices95.

(1)

Utilities that intend to organise a design contest shall call for competition by means of a contest notice.

(2)

Contest notices shall—

(a)

include the information set out in Annex XIX to the Utilities Contracts Directive F1, but as if, in paragraph 15, “date of dispatch” were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations; and

(b)

be F2submitted for publication in accordance with regulation 71.

(3)

Utilities that have held a design contest shall make the results known by means of a notice, which shall be F3submitted for publication—

(a)

in accordance with regulation 71, and

(b)

within 30 days of the closure of the design contest.

(4)

A notice of the results of the contest shall include the information set out in Annex XX to the Utilities Contracts Directive F4, but as if, in paragraph 11, “date of dispatch” were a reference to the date on which the notice is submitted to the UK e-notification service for the purposes of these Regulations.

(5)

But where the release of the information on the outcome of the contest—

(a)

would impede law enforcement or would otherwise be contrary to the public interest;

(b)

would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of a particular economic operator; whether public or private; or

(c)

might prejudice fair competition between economic operators,

such information may be withheld from publication.