PART 2RULES IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC CONTRACTS DIRECTIVE
CHAPTER 2RULES ON PUBLIC CONTRACTS
Choice of Participants and Awarding Contracts
Life-cycle costing68
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Life-cycle costing must, to the extent relevant, cover part or all of the following costs over the life cycle of a product, service or works—
a
costs, borne by the contracting authority or other users, such as—
i
costs relating to acquisition;
ii
costs of use, such as consumption of energy and other resources;
iii
maintenance costs;
iv
end of life costs, such as collection and recycling costs; and
b
costs imputed to environmental externalities linked to the product, service or works during its life cycle, provided their monetary value can be determined and verified.
2
The costs mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) may include the cost of emissions of greenhouse gases and of other pollutant emissions and other climate change mitigation costs.
3
The method used for the assessment of costs imputed to environmental externalities must fulfil all of the following conditions—
a
it is based on objectively verifiable and non-discriminatory criteria and, in particular, where it has not been established for repeated or continuous application, it must not unduly favour or disadvantage certain economic operators;
b
it is accessible to all interested parties;
c
the data required can be provided with reasonable effort by normally diligent economic operatorsF2....
4
Where a contracting authority assesses costs using a life-cycle costing approach, the authority must indicate in the procurement documents—
a
the data to be provided by the tenderers; and
b
the method which the contracting authority will use to determine the life-cycle costs on the basis of those data.
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