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What period and facts govern ordinary contract details notice in England and Wales?

Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

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Period
Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry
Trigger
The day the public contract is entered into
Rule
Procurement Act 2023 section 53
Procurement Act 2023 section 53

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Procurement Act 2023 section 53. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period. The ordinary contract details notice source guide provides no computed date or paid calculation.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

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What period and facts govern ordinary contract details notice in England and Wales?

Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

Responsible actor. The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract.

The day the public contract is entered into

Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

How does this provision count time?

  1. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry
  2. Publish the required contract details notice.
  3. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Preserve the Act’s beginning-with wording. Its working-day definition excludes weekends and a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom; ordinary calendar-day and month periods remain distinct.

For ordinary contract details notice, an unavailable office does not by itself establish an extension of a statutory contract-entry restriction, publication duty or limitation. Establish actual procurement applicability and any expressly authorized court order.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

Procurement Act 2023 section 53. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period. The ordinary contract details notice source guide provides no computed date or paid calculation.

ResultRead the operative provision and establish the applicable branch.

The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract has records of the day the public contract is entered into. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Publish the required contract details notice. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period. Establish the complete ordinary contract details notice procedure before choosing an endpoint.

The proposed ordinary contract details notice step encounters a closed recipient, disputed delivery or an uncertain event. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Preserve the Act’s beginning-with wording. Its working-day definition excludes weekends and a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom; ordinary calendar-day and month periods remain distinct. For ordinary contract details notice, an unavailable office does not by itself establish an extension of a statutory contract-entry restriction, publication duty or limitation. Establish actual procurement applicability and any expressly authorized court order. Establish effective ordinary contract details notice completion and source applicability. No assumed closure extension or substitute date is computed.

Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period. The day the public contract is entered into. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Publish the required contract details notice. Preserve this ordinary contract details notice qualification rather than converting incomplete facts into a final date.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Actor and completed ordinary contract details notice step
The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract. Publish the required contract details notice.
Operative ordinary contract details notice event and branch
The day the public contract is entered into. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.
Counting and completion of ordinary contract details notice
Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Preserve the Act’s beginning-with wording. Its working-day definition excludes weekends and a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom; ordinary calendar-day and month periods remain distinct. For ordinary contract details notice, an unavailable office does not by itself establish an extension of a statutory contract-entry restriction, publication duty or limitation. Establish actual procurement applicability and any expressly authorized court order.
Procurement Act 2023 section 53
  • The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract. Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.
  • Ordinary contract details notice concerns publish the required contract details notice. The the day the public contract is entered into establishes this procedure’s source event. A different remedy, notice recipient or statutory regime requires its own period and completed-act analysis.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

What period and facts govern ordinary contract details notice in England and Wales?

What period governs ordinary contract details notice?

Publish before the end of 30 days beginning with contract entry. Section 53 excludes private utilities and the specified direct-award user-choice contracts. The light-touch classification changes the period.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Which event controls ordinary contract details notice?

The day the public contract is entered into. Preserve the actual event and its source evidence.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

What completes ordinary contract details notice?

Publish the required contract details notice. The contracting authority entering an eligible ordinary non-light-touch public contract must establish that particular completed step.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Does ordinary contract details notice run from the award decision?

Section 53 uses actual entry into the public contract. The award notice and contract-entry date are distinct source events.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Does every contracting authority owe this publication duty?

Section 53(6) excludes private utilities and the identified user-choice direct awards. The actual authority and award route must be established.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Is publishing contract details the same as publishing the contract copy?

Section 53(3) separately requires qualifying contracts over £5 million to be published within ninety or one hundred eighty days, subject to its exceptions.

Procurement Act 2023 section 53

Official sources and review

Provisions used (2)
Provisions used in this guide
ProvisionPurpose
Procurement Act 2023 section 53Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Procurement Act 2023 section 123Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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