[F1Article 157 U.K. Opening of tenders and requests to participate (Article 111(4) of the Financial Regulation)
1. In open procedures, authorised representatives from tenderers may attend the opening session.
2. Where the value of a contract is equal to or greater than the thresholds laid down in Article 118(1) of the Financial Regulation, the authorising officer responsible shall appoint a committee to open the tenders. The authorising officer may waive this obligation on the basis of a risk analysis when reopening competition within a framework contract and for the cases set out in Article 134(1) of this Regulation except points (d) and (g) of that Article.
The opening committee shall be made up of at least two persons representing at least two organisational entities of the institution concerned with no hierarchical link between them. To avoid any conflict of interests, those persons shall be subject to the obligations laid down in Article 57 of the Financial Regulation.
In the representations or local units referred to in Article 72 of this Regulation or isolated in a Member State, if there are no separate entities, the requirement of organisational entities with no hierarchical link between them shall not apply.
3. In the case of a procurement procedure launched on an interinstitutional basis, the opening committee shall be appointed by the responsible authorising officer from the institution responsible for the procurement procedure.
4. The contracting authority shall verify and ensure the integrity of the original tender including the financial offer and of the evidence of date and time of its receipt as provided for in points 2 and 4 of Article 155 by any appropriate method.
5. In open procedures, where the contract is awarded under the lowest price or lowest cost methods in accordance with Article 110(4) of the Financial Regulation, the prices quoted in tenders satisfying the requirements shall be read out loud.
6. The written record of the opening of the tenders received shall be signed by the person or persons in charge of opening or by members of the opening committee. It shall identify those tenders which comply with the requirements of Article 155 and those which do not, and shall give the grounds on which tenders were rejected as set out in Article 111(4) of the Financial Regulation. That record may be signed in an electronic system providing sufficient identification of the signatory.]
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.