Part 3: Award of public contracts and procedures Time limits and termination Section 55: Procurement termination notices
Subsection (1) requires a contracting authority, which has published a tender or transparency notice, to confirm by way of a further notice if it decides not to award the contract, i.e. if it terminates a procurement process.
	Subsection (2) sets out that once the contracting authority has decided to terminate a procurement, it must issue the notice as soon as reasonably practicable.
	Subsection (3) stipulates that this section does not apply to private utilities.