S.L. 601.3 Art. 121Receipt of tenders.

(1) The minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders from the suitable candidates shall be thirty days from the date on which the invitation to tender was sent.

(2) Where contracting authorities have published a prior information notice, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders as laid down in sub-regulation (1) may be shortened to ten days, provided that all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

(a) the prior information notice included all the information required in section I of part B of Schedule 9, in so far as that information was available at the time the prior information notice was published;

(b) the prior information notice was sent for publication between thirty-five days and twelve months before the date on which the contract notice was sent.

(3) The time limit for receipt of tenders provided for in sub-regulation (1) may be reduced by five days where the contracting authority accepts that tenders may be submitted by electronic means in conformity with regulation 48(1) to (6), (10), (11) and

(12) to (14).