Translation of "Tendering authority" in German

The selection of the suppliers by the tendering authority shall be done in two stages:

This means that the tendering authority does not have to accept the lowest tender.

In the qualification procedure the tendering authority shall verify that the applicants meet a number of minimum criteria.

The tendering authority shall short-list the applicants meeting the criteria of the qualification procedure.

The tendering authority shall ensure that the award decision and the reasons for this decision are made public.

At the end of this five-year period, the supplier shall inform the relevant tendering authority sufficiently in advance and at least six months before the expiry of the five-year period.

The tendering authority may not eliminate any of the award criteria, add others or subdivide those initially laid down in the invitation to tender.

The tendering authority may, in duly justified cases, at the request of the supplier of groundhandling services and after consulting the Airport Users' Committee, prolong this period for a maximum of six months.

The tendering authority shall anticipate the end of the authorisation period and shall ensure that any supplier selected after a new invitation to tender is authorised to start its operations the day following the last day of the authorisation period of the previously selected supplier(s).

The tendering authority shall inform the Airport Users' Committee and, if applicable, the managing body of the airport of decisions taken under Articles 7, 8 and 9 as well as under this Article.

Where a supplier ceases its activity before the end of the period for which it was authorised and does not leave sufficient time to the tendering authority to select a new supplier before it leaves the airport, with the result that there is a temporary monopoly for certain groundhandling services at this airport, the Member State shall authorise for a limited period of time not exceeding ten months a supplier of groundhandling services to provide groundhandling services at that airport without having recourse to the selection procedure laid down in Articles 7, 8, 9 and this Article.

The tendering authority may set a minimum number of points that a successful applicant has to reach for certain specific award criteria.

Any supplier ceasing its activity shall inform the relevant tendering authority of its intention to cease activity sufficiently in advance and at least six months in advance before it leaves the airport.

Financial penalties may be imposed on the supplier if it does not inform the tendering authority sufficiently in advance unless the supplier can demonstrate force majeure.

However, it appears that national or regional/local tendering authorities are not yet sufficiently aware of these possibilities.

In the event of withdrawal by the successful tenderer, the contracting authority may call up his tender guarantee.

Where they have doubts concerning the personal situation of candidates or tenderers, contracting authorities may themselves apply to the competent authorities referred to in paragraph 1 to obtain any information they consider necessary about that situation.’;

If the second procedure does not produce three valid tenders, the contracting authority may award the contract on the basis of a single valid tender.’

If the documents relating to the contract provide for its award at the lowest price tendered, the contracting authority must communicate to the Commission the rejection of tenders which it considers to be too low.

Where the criterion for the award of the contract is that of the most economically advantageous tender, contracting authorities may take account of variants which are submitted by a tenderer and meet the minimum specifications required by the contracting authorities.

If the documents relating to the contract provide for its award at the lowest price tendered, the contracting authority must communicate to the Commission the rejection of tenders which it consider to be too low.

Before issuing the invitation to tender, contracting authorities shall publish a simplified contract notice inviting all interested economic operators to submit an indicative tender, in accordance with paragraph 4, within a time limit that may not be less than 15 days from the date on which the simplified notice was sent.

Before the time limit for receipt of requests to participate or tenders, the contracting authority may communicate additional information about the procurement documents if it discovers an error or omission in the text or upon request from candidates or tenderers.

When fixing the time limits for the submission of applications for the concession and submission of tenders, contracting authorities or contracting entities shall take account in particular of the complexity of the concession and the time required for drawing up tenders, without prejudice to the minimum time limits set out in Article 37.

The affected groups include citizens in all Member States, who benefit from the infrastructure and ultimately fund it, either as consumers or tax payers, tendering authorities which may not have multiple competitive financing offers and project promoters, who may not be able to get financing for their projects at present, affecting employment directly.

Where the criterion for award is that of the most economically advantageous tender, contracting authorities may authorise tenderers to submit variants.

When assessing the quality of the tenders, the contracting authorities must in principle work within the objective criteria related to the tender in question which are directly related to the product or service and which are designed to select the best , most favorable tender , in order to avoid discrimination between the tendering parties.