Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 1: Preliminary steps Section 17: Preliminary market engagement notices
Subsection (1) requires that if a contracting authority carries out preliminary market engagement (defined in section 16) it must publish a preliminary market engagement notice before it publishes a tender notice or, when it does publish a tender notice, explain why it did not publish a preliminary market engagement notice.
	Subsection (2) sets out the minimum information that must be contained within the notice. Further details of what the notice will contain will be set out in regulations.