SAG ELV Slovensko v Úrad pre verejné obstarávanie [2012] EUECJ C-599/10

Procedure: Tell me more

Fran Mussellwhite explores the principles behind the submission of supplementary information after the deadline for bid submissions ‘Negotiation between a contracting authority and a bidder during a procurement is prohibited and as a general rule, a bid cannot be amended after it has been submitted.’ A series of recent European cases have focused on the …

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Tendering: Looking a gift horse in the mouth

Catherine Wolfenden and Ashley Morgan consider the treatment of abnormally low tenders in public procurement An authority cannot reject the tender without seeking clarification of any areas that seem unusually low and evaluating the bid on the basis of the response it receives.In a climate of ever-tightening budgets for public authorities, when a bidder comes …

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