Regulation 116. Contract notice and time limit

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(2) Where the authorities responsible for the tendering process have published a prior information notice, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders may be shortened to fifteen days, provided that all of the following conditions are fulfilled:

(3) Where a state of urgency duly substantiated renders impracticable the time limit laid down in sub-regulation (1), the authority responsible for the tendering process may, fix a time limit which shall be not less than fifteen (15) days from the date on which the contract notice was sent to the Publications Office of the European Union or from the date on which the tender has been published as the case maybe.

(4) The authority responsible for the tendering process may also reduce by five days the time limit for receipt of tenders established in sub-regulation (1) where it accepts that tenders may be submitted by electronic means in accordance with regulation 48(1), (2) and (10).

(5) In the case of a contract with an estimated value which is less than the threshold established under regulation 9(1)(a), the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders shall be twenty days from the date on which the tender has been published: Provided that the authority responsible for the tendering process may reduce this time limit to fifteen (15) days in cases of extreme urgency.