Section 50

Before entering into a public contract, a contracting authority must publish a contract award notice. A “contract award notice” means a notice setting out— that the contracting authority intends to enter into a contract, and any other information specified in regulations under section 95. Before publishing a contract award notice in respect of a contract awarded under section 19 (award following competitive tendering procedure), a contracting authority must provide an assessment summary to each supplier that submitted an assessed tender. An “assessment summary” means, in relation to an assessed tender, information about the contracting authority’s assessment of— the tender, and if different, the most advantageous tender submitted in respect of the contract. In this section, an “assessed tender” is a tender which— was submitted in respect of the contract and assessed for the purposes of determining the most advantageous tender under section 19(1), and was not disregarded in the assessment of tenders. Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to— a defence and security contract awarded under a defence and security framework; a contract awarded under section 41 by reference to paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 (direct award: user choice contracts).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04