Regulation 12

A contracting authority may publish in the approved medium as early as possible in each financial year of the contracting authority, a notice of planned procurement.

The notice of planned procurement mentioned in paragraph (1) must include the subject‑matter of the procurement and the planned date of the publication of the notice of intended procurement.

A contracting authority listed in Part 2 of the Second Schedule to the Order may use a notice of planned procurement as a notice of intended procurement if the notice of planned procurement includes as much of the information referred to in regulation 10(2) as is available to the contracting authority and a statement that interested suppliers should express their interest in the procurement to the contracting authority.