[F1Article 276 U.K. Evaluation committee (Article 190 of the Financial Regulation)
1. All requests to participate and tenders declared as satisfying the requirements shall be evaluated and ranked by an evaluation committee on the basis of the exclusion, selection and award criteria announced in advance. This committee shall have an odd number of members, at least three, with all the necessary technical and administrative expertise to assess the tenders. The members of the evaluation committee shall sign a declaration of impartiality and absence of conflict of interest.
2. If the Commission is not the contracting authority, it may request to receive a copy of procurement documents, tenders, the evaluation of the tenders and the signed contracts. It may also participate as an observer to the opening and evaluation of tenders.
3. Tenders which do not contain all the essential items demanded in the procurement documents or which do not correspond to the specific requirements laid down shall be eliminated.
However, the evaluation committee or the contracting authority may ask candidates or tenderers to supply additional material or to clarify the supporting documents submitted in connection with the exclusion, selection and award criteria, within the time limit they specify and having respect to the principle of equal treatment.
4. In the case of abnormally low tenders as referred to in Article 151, the committee shall ask for the necessary clarifications concerning the composition of the tender.
5. The obligation to establish an evaluation committee may be waived for procedures with a value less than or equal to EUR 20 000 and on the basis of a risk analysis when reopening competition within a framework contract and in the case of negotiated procedures referred to in points (c), (e), (f)(i), (f)(iii) and (h) of Article 134(1).]
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.