INFORMATION ONLY - Find a Tender Service (FTS) e-notification Service

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This note is for information purposes only, no further action is required. The UK government has developed a new e-notification service that will replace the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) at the end of the Brexit transition period. This system is called "Find A Tender Service" (FTS) and will be live from 23:00 on 31 December 2020. Contracting Authorities including Cheshire West and Chester Council, have a legal obligation to publish certain notices in relation to advertising contract opportunities and awards to which the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 apply. For procurements which are launched after 23:00 on 31 December 2020, these notices will be published on FTS instead of in OJEU. This change does not affect organisations access to other national procurement portals such as Contracts Finder, MOD, Defence Contracts Online, Public Contacts Scotland, Sell2Wales, or TenderNI;  also it  does not affect organisations access to buyer specific portals. Cheshire West and Chester Council will continue to publish opportunities  via the council's own e-tendering portal, The Chest. Organisations wishing to access wider UK public sector contract opportunities where the procurement opportunity is launched after 23:00 on 31 December 2020 will need to access the new FTS. Suppliers and data consumers who make use of OJEU data outputs will be able to access publicly available data outputs for FTS. Data is available for testing, for support please contact the Crown Commercial Service helpdesk on 0345 410 2222 or on info@crowncommercial.gov.uk. The URL of the new UK e-notification service FTS is: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk, you will be able to access this URL from 31 December 2020. Keywords: For Information only