S.L. 601.5 ст. 91Time limit for the receipt of tenders for a call for competition.

(1) (a) A call for competition with an estimated value which falls under the threshold established under regulation

30(b)shall have a minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders which shall be thirty-five days from the date of publication.

(b) When the estimated value of a call for tenders meet sor exceeds the value in Schedule 5, this call shall be made by means of a contract notice and the time limit mentioned paragraph (a) shall start to run from the date on which the contract notice was sent to the Publications Office of the European Union.

(c) The tender shall be accompanied by the information for qualitative selection that is requested by the contracting entity.

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

(a) the periodic indicative notice included, in addition to the information required by section I of Part A of Schedule 8, all the information required by section II of Part A of Schedule 8, insofar as the latter information was available at the time the periodic indicative notice was published;

(b) the periodic indicative notice was sent for publication between thirty-five days and twelve months before the date on which the contract notice was sent;

(c) the tender shall be accompanied by the information for qualitative selection that is requested by the contracting entity.

(3) Where a state of urgency duly substantiated renders impracticable the time limit laid down in sub-regulation (1)(a), the contracting entity, upon approval of the Director, may fix a time limit which shall be not less than fifteen days from the date on which the contract notice was sent to the Publications Office of the European Union.

(4) The contracting entity may reduce by five days the time limit for receipt of tenders set out in sub-regulation (1)(a) where it accepts that tenders may be submitted by electronic means in accordance with regulation 70(9) to (14).

(5) In the case of a contract with an estimated value which is less than the threshold established under regulation 30(1)(a), the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders shall be twenty days from the date on which the tender has been published: Provided that this time limit can be reduced to fifteen days in cases of extreme urgency with the prior approval of the head of the contracting entity.