Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 (repealed)Show full title

[F1 Article 152 U.K. Time limits for receipt of tenders and requests to participate (Article 111(1) of the Financial Regulation)

1. The contracting authority shall lay down time limits for the receipt of tenders and requests to participate.

When fixing time limits, the contracting authority shall take account of the complexity of the contract and the time required for drawing up tenders. The time limits shall be longer than the minimum time limits set out in this Article where tenders can only be drawn after a visit to the site or after an on-the-spot consultation of the documents supporting the procurement documents.

The time limits shall be prolonged by five days in any of the following cases:

(a) the contracting authority does not offer direct access free of charge by electronic means to the procurement documents;

(b) the contract notice is published in accordance with point (b) of Article 125(2).]

[F1 2. In open procedures, the time limit for receipt of tenders shall be no less than 37 days from the date on which the contract notice is dispatched.

3. In restricted procedures, in competitive dialogues, in competitive procedures with negotiation, in dynamic purchasing systems and in innovation partnerships, the time limit for receipt of requests to participate shall be no less than 32 days from the date on which the contract notice is dispatched.]

[F1 4. In restricted procedures and in competitive procedures with negotiation, the time limit for receipt of tenders shall be no less than 30 days from the date on which the invitation to tender is dispatched.

5. In a dynamic purchasing system, the time limit for receipt of tenders shall be no less than 10 days from the date on which the invitation to tender is dispatched.

6. In the procedures after a call for expressions of interest referred to in Article 136(1), the time limit shall be:

(a) no less than 10 days from the date on which the invitation to tender is dispatched for receipt of tenders in the case of the procedure referred to in Article 136(1)(a) and Article 136(3)(b)(i);

(b) no less than 10 days for receipt of requests to participate and no less than 10 days for receipt of tenders in the case of the two-step procedure referred to in Article 136(3)(b)(ii).

7. The contracting authority may reduce the time limits for receipt of tenders by five days for the open or restricted procedures if it accepts that tenders may be submitted by electronic means.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/2462 of 30 October 2015 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1268/2012 on the rules of application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union.