A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers, to bid, to supply products or services.

The Guide to Enactment refers to additional rules and techniques that might be needed, for instance to guard the confidentiality of tenders and prevent opening' of the tenders prior to the deadline for submission of tenders .

(g) Article 30 (3) (extension of the deadline for submitting tenders)

C. Changes to the Ozone Secretariat website invitation for suggestions The Ozone Secretariat is in the process of making changes to the Ozone website.

(e) Article 30 (1) (requirement to fix the place for and a specific date and time as a deadline for submission of tenders)

The Committee will be invited to provide further comments and inputs, based on the preliminary outline.

(f) Article 30 (2) (requiring entities to extend the tendering deadline when it makes changes to its requirements)

Objectivity in the process could also be improved if procuring entities were to compare prices received with pre tender estimates based on market prices.

The draft has therefore avoided these problems by deeming that these announcements and home pages of electronic sites are merely invitations to make offers.

Tender committee

(d) No person can have access to a tender prior to the time and date specified in the solicitation documents, or any extension thereto as the deadline for submission of tenders, and at which tenders are to be opened

After declining the Superior Court's invitation to supplement evidence, counsel for the corporation unsuccessfully attempted to do so in the Court of Appeal.

Article 30. Submission of tenders

H. Electronic opening of tenders

Article 33. Opening of tenders

(f) Only two authorized persons may set or change the time and date specified in the solicitation documents or any extension thereto as the deadline for submission of tenders, and at which tenders are to be opened

The terms of reference for the administration of the trust fund were circulated to all Parties in March of 2003 together with an invitation to make voluntary contributions to the fund.

(iii) Inviting industry to make financial contributions to Strategic Approach implementation, emphasizing project activities that are consistent with good corporate social and environmental responsibility

Thirdly, the authenticity of tenders must be established).

(3) Paragraph 3 considers the contents of initial tenders.

(iii) Electronic submission of tenders, proposals and quotations

It was also observed that the question of tender securities might need specific provision, in the light of the experience of certain delegations and observers that tender securities remained paper based documents, and simultaneous submission with electronic tenders might not be possible.

It was evident that all three had been prepared by the same company.

Electronic submission of tenders, proposals and quotations

A study of bidding behaviour in situations where bid rigging is suspected might identify patterns suggesting customer allocation or bid rotation.

Applying the principle of functional equivalence to the electronic submission of tenders, electronic tenders require the same legal value as tenders submitted in writing, signed and in a sealed envelope.

Competitive bidding was not systematically used (Angola and Namibia).

(c) The exact time and date of the receipt of tenders can be established

When reviewing tenders, procuring entities, it was said, should be allowed to seek justification of prices if they suspected abnormally low tenders.

The Secretariat was requested to provide the Working Group with further information and proposals on this question at its next session, for example considering whether there was any practice allowing for a short period for post tender submission of securities (see also para. 100 below).

(h) Article 30 (6) (requirement to return late tenders unopened)

(i) Article 33 (1) (opening of tenders at the deadline)

The Advisory Committee understands that MONUC does not support the rationale for the increases and is currently going through a rebuttal process a decision on eventual re bidding is yet to be taken.

(l) Article 34 (3) (on tenders that the entity cannot accept) and

The Committee may invite the complainant or his her representative and representatives of the State party concerned to be present at specified closed meetings of the Committee in order to provide further clarifications or to answer questions on the merits of the complaint.

In procedures involving an electronic auction, some of these provisions apply to the initial tenders envisaged under paragraph 4 (a) of that draft article (that is, the tenders submitted and evaluated prior to the auction phase).

Call to action

In particular, the EU welcomes work already under way in identifying cluster, or sectoral, bids.

It expects that the required practice for international bidding will be fully respected in the selection process for the external consultants.

Proposed additional text for the Guide to Enactment regarding the opening of tenders submitted electronically

The Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues should be invited to participate in the work of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations concerning free, prior and informed consent, in order to present the outcomes of the International Workshop on Methodologies regarding Free, Prior and Informed Consent and Indigenous Peoples with a view to facilitating the coordination of work on this issue.

(Same text as paragraph 1 of opinion No.

The procuring entity may, however, require that tenders include such features.

The Commission also established educational programs on the issue of affirmative action for women for members of tender committees.

(5) Where suppliers or contractors are permitted to follow the opening of the tenders through electronic means of communication used by the procuring entity in accordance with article 33 (4), they shall be deemed to have been permitted to be present at the opening of tenders in accordance with the requirements of article 33 (2).