Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 5: After award, standstill periods and notices Section 53: Contract details notices and publication of contracts
Subsection (1) requires that once a contracting authority has entered into a public contract (as defined in section 3), it must publish a contract details notice in relation to that contract within a specified time period after the contract is entered into. For most public contracts, that period is 30 days from the day the contract is entered into. For light touch contracts, the relevant period is 120 days.
	Subsection (2) establishes that a "contract details notice" is a notice setting out that the contracting authority has entered into a contract. It also requires that the notice must contain such other information as is set out in regulations made under section 95 (notices, documents and information: regulations and online system).
	Subsection (3) requires a contracting authority to publish a copy of a public contract within a specified time period of the date that it is entered into, if the estimated value exceeds £5 million. The time period for doing is in most cases 90 days, increased to 180 days in respect of light touch contracts.
	Subsection (4) disapplies the obligation to publish contracts, established in subsection (3), to contracts within the regulatory ambit of Welsh Ministers and Northern Ireland departments.
	Subsection (5) allows a Minister of the Crown to change the financial threshold for the publication of a contract.
	Subsection (6) sets out that neither the obligation to publish a contract details notice, nor the obligation to publish a contract apply to private utilities.  It also exempts user choice contracts directly awarded under paragraph 15 of schedule 5 (direct award justifications), from these obligations.