5.5 The ITPD needs to comply with regulation 18 of the Regulations and must include:
• The information contained in the Memorandum of Information and any supporting and additional documentation;
• A reference to the published OJEU notice (including the publication reference number and date)
• The date of the start of "consultation". The date of the "consultation" is the first date when any form of interaction between participants and the contracting body occurs. This could be participant meetings or submissions by participants of their initial proposals (i.e. what is currently the submission of PITN responses for larger schemes with greater than £60m capital expenditure.)
• The address(es) applicable to the consultation. This may be the location of participant meetings and/or the address to which initial proposals should be submitted (i.e. usually the contracting body's Project Office.)
• The language to be used for the purpose of dialogue confirmed (as issued in OJEU).
• The criteria for the award of contract.
• Information on weighting of the award criteria (unless weighting is not possible in which the criteria must be listed in descending order of importance);
• A reference to any additional documents required from participants to update information on financial or technical standing which was submitted at the PQQ stage.
5.6 The Memorandum of Information to be included within the ITPD is the document which defines the contracting authority's needs and requirements. This need not be a single document but can evolve to include a series of updated and/or more detailed descriptive documents issued as the dialogue process progresses. However, the overall scope of the project must not change. The ITPD will contain the information set out in the Information Memorandum and, although not essential, can be accompanied by any additional information which further defines the contracting body's requirements. Details of this information is provided below: