S.L. 601.5 Art. 68Contest notice.

(1) Contracting entities that intend to organise a design contest with an estimated value which meets or exceeds the threshold established under Schedule 5 shall call for competition by means of a contest notice.

(2) Where contracting entities intend to award a subsequent service contract pursuant to regulation 126(g), this shall be indicated in the design contest notice.

(3) Contracting entities that have held a design contest shall make the results known by means of a notice.

(4) The call for competition shall include the information set out in Schedule 18 and the notice of the results of a design contest shall include the information set out in Schedule 19 in the format of standard forms.

(5) The notice of the results of a design contest shall be forwarded to the Publication Office of the European union within thirty days of the closure of the design contest.

(6) Where the release of information on the outcome of the contest would impede law enforcement, would be contrary to the public interest or would prejudice the legitimate commercial interests of a particular economic operator, whether public or private, or might prejudice fair competition between economic operators, such information may be withheld from publication.

(7) The provisions of regulation 66 shall also apply to notices relating to design contests.