Overview
This regulation provides rules on how a contracting authority may publish procurement notices to locations other than the UK e-notification service (provided by Find a Tender).
In addition to publishing procurement notices on the UK e-notification service (regulation 51 PCR 2015), contracting authorities may publish the information contained in them on the internet on a buyer profile.
A buyer profile may include:
- information relating to ongoing invitations to tender, scheduled purchases, contracts concluded, procedures cancelled, and
- general information, such as a contact point, a telephone and a fax number, a postal address and an e-mail address.
Contracting authorities are required to publish procurement notices on the UK e-notification service before they can be published to any other location (except where the contracting authority does not receive a publication confirmation within 48 hours of the notice being submitted).
Objective at this commercial stage
Subject to limited exceptions, where a contracting authority seeks to publish a contract award notice under regulation 50 PCR 2015, this must first be published on Find a Tender before it can be published to any other location.
Key considerations at this commercial stage
Contracting authorities:
- may publish a contract award notice under regulation 50 PCR 2015 on its buyer profile subject to certain conditions
- may include on a buyer profile information on contracts concluded and procedures cancelled; and useful general information, such as a contact point, a telephone and a fax number, a postal address and an e-mail address
- may not, subject to limited exceptions, publish procurement notices on a buyer profile or any other location, unless such notices have been published on Find a Tender.
Legal framework
See also in the Procurement Act 2023:
- Section 95: Notices, documents and information: regulations and online system
- Section 97: Information relating to a procurement
Additional support and guidance
Make sure you:
- read the regulation
- seek legal and commercial advice in the context of specific procurements
