Article 81. Prior information notices.

1. The contracting authorities shall make known by 31 December of each year their intention to call for tenders for the following year by publishing on their institutional website a pre-information notice containing the information referred to in Annex II.6, Part I , letter B, section B.1. For contracts with amounts equal to or greater than the thresholds referred to in Article 14, the pre-information notice is published by the Publications Office of the European Union or by the contracting authority on its institutional website. In the latter case, the contracting authorities communicate the pre-information notice to the ANAC which, via the national database of public contracts, takes care of sending to the aforementioned Office a notice relating to the publication on the institutional website of the contracting authority containing the information referred to in Annex II.6, Part I, letter A. 2. For restricted procedures and competitive procedures with negotiation, sub-central contracting authorities may use a prior information notice as a call for competition, provided that the notice satisfies all of the following conditions: a) refers specifically to the supplies, works or services that will be the subject of the contract to be awarded; b) indicates that the contract will be awarded by means of a restricted procedure or a procedure competitive with negotiation without further publication of a call for competition and invites interested economic operators to express their interest; c) contains, in addition to the information referred to in Annex II.6, Part I, letter B, section B .1, the information referred to in Annex II.6, Part I, letter B, section B.2; d) has been sent for publication no less than thirty-five days and no more than twelve months before the date of dispatch of the invitation to confirm the interest referred to in article 89, paragraph 1. 3. The notice referred to in paragraph 2 is published on the institutional website of the contracting authority as a supplementary publication at national level, in accordance with article 85. 4. The period covered by the pre-information notice cannot exceed twelve months from the date of transmission of the notice for publication. However, in the case of public procurement for services referred to in Annex . EFFECTIVE FROM: January 1, 2024