Part 8: Information and notices: general provision Section 93: Pipeline notices
Subsection (1) establishes that this section applies to any contracting authority that considers that in the next financial year it will spend more than £100 million on certain types of contracts, known as relevant contracts and defined in subsection (4) as any contract for the supply of goods, services or works, other than exempted contracts.
	Subsection (2) requires contracting authorities that meet the threshold set out in subsection (1) to publish a notice, referred to as a pipeline notice, before the end of the period of 56 days beginning with the first day of the financial year.
	Subsection (3) sets out that a "pipeline notice" must contain certain information about any public contract with an estimated value of more than £2 million for which the contracting authority is expecting to publish a tender notice or a transparency notice, within the reporting period.
	Subsection (4) sets out definitions of "financial year", "relevant contracts", "reporting period" and "specified information".
	Subsection (5) allows a Minister of the Crown or the Welsh Ministers to amend the section for the purpose of changing the financial thresholds.
	Subsection (6) stipulates that this section does not apply to private utilities or a transferred Northern Ireland authority (a concept defined in section 112).