Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 5: After award, standstill periods and notices Section 50: Contract award notices and assessment summaries
Subsection (1) requires a contracting authority to publish a contract award notice before entering into a public contract.
	Subsection (2) establishes that an "award notice" is a notice setting out that the contracting authority intends to enter a contract. It must also contain any other information required by regulations made under section 95 (notices, documents and information: regulations and online system).
	Subsection (3) requires that before issuing an award notice, contracting authorities that award a contract following a competitive procedure set out in section 19 (award of public contracts following a competitive tendering procedure) must provide certain suppliers with an assessment summary. Those suppliers are suppliers that submitted an "assessed tender".
	Subsection (4) defines an assessment summary to mean an assessment of the supplier's tender and if that supplier did not win, also an assessment of the winning (most advantageous) tender.
	Subsection (5) defines an assessed tender as a tender which was assessed for the purposes of determining the most advantageous tender and not disregarded. A tender may be disregarded if, for example, it was removed from the competition in accordance with section 19(3), which allows for a tender to be disregarded in a variety of circumstances, including failure to satisfy the conditions of participation. Subsection (6) removes the requirement to publish award notices for defence and security contracts awarded under defence and security frameworks. It also removes the requirement to publish a contract award notice in the case of user choice contracts when directly awarded under paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 (direct award justifications).  It should be noted that a contract award notice may still be published on a voluntary basis in relation to contracts awarded under defence and security frameworks and user choice contracts, if the contracting authority wants to enter into a voluntary standstill period (see section 51).