Section 54(5)

In this section— “central government authority” has the meaning given in paragraph 5 of Schedule 1; “negotiated tendering period” means a tendering period agreed between a contracting authority and pre-selected suppliers in circumstances where tenders may be submitted only by those pre-selected suppliers; “qualifying planned procurement notice” has the meaning given in section 15; “participation period” means the period beginning with the day following the day on which a contracting authority invites the submission of requests to participate in a competitive flexible procedure and ending with the day by which those requests must be submitted; “pre-selected supplier” means a supplier that— has been assessed as satisfying conditions of participation before being invited to submit a tender as part of a competitive tendering procedure, or in the case of a contract that is being awarded by reference to suppliers’ membership of a dynamic market, is a member of that market; “tendering period” means the period beginning with the day following the day on which a contracting authority invites the submission of tenders as part of a competitive tendering procedure and ending with the day by which tenders must be submitted.

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