S.L. 601.5 Art. 65Contract award notices.

(1) Not later than thirty days after the conclusion of a contract or of a framework agreement following the decision to award or conclude it, contracting entities shall send a contract award notice on the results of the procurement procedure.

(2) Such notice shall contain the information set out in Schedule 12 and shall be published in accordance with regulation 66.

(3) In the case of framework agreements concluded in accordance with regulations 143 to 146, contracting entities shall not be bound to send a notice of the results of the procurement procedure for each contract based on that agreement: Provided that contracting entities shall group notices of the results of the procurement procedure for contracts based on the framework agreement on a quarterly basis. In that case, contracting entities shall send the grouped notices within thirty days of the end of each quarter.

(4) Contracting entities shall send a contract award notice within thirty days after the award of each contract based on a dynamic purchasing system. They may, however, group such notices on a quarterly basis. In that case, they shall send the grouped notices within thirty days of the end of each quarter.

(5) The information provided in accordance with Schedule 19 and intended for publication shall be published in accordance with Schedule 10. Certain information on the contract award or the conclusion of the framework agreement may be withheld from publication where its release would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary to the public interest or would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of a particular economic operator, public or private, or might prejudice fair competition between economic operators.

(6) In the case of contracts for research-and-development services ("R & D services"), the information concerning the nature and quantity of the services may be limited to:

(a) the indication "R & D services" where the contract has been awarded by a negotiated procedure without a call for competition in accordance with regulations 125(b), 126(b) and 127(b);

(b) information at least as detailed as was indicated in the notice that was used as a means of calling for competition.

(7) Information provided in accordance with Schedule 12 and marked as not being intended for publication shall be published only in simplified form and in accordance with Schedule 10 for statistical purposes.

(8) Where the call for competition for the contract concerned has been made in the form of a periodic indicative notice and the contracting entity has decided that it will not award further contracts during the period covered by the periodic indicative notice, the contract award notice shall contain a specific indication to that effect.