Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Chapter 1: Preliminary steps Section 15: Planned procurement notices
Subsection (1) gives contracting authorities an option to publish a planned procurement notice. The benefit of this would be for them to take advantage of the reduction of time periods that apply to the award procedure (set out further in section 54 (time limits)).
	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.
	Subsection (3) sets out the time periods for when the notice must have been published in order for the reduced time limits to apply. This is referred to as a "qualifying planned procurement notice".
	Subsection (4) directs the reader to section 54(4) where time reductions are outlined if a qualifying planned procurement notice is published.