Common use of Notice of Intended Procurement Clause in Contracts

Notice of Intended Procurement. 1. For each case of intended procurement, each Party shall ensure that its procuring entities make publicly available in advance in the appropriate publication listed in Annex 9, a notice of intended procurement inviting interested suppliers to participate in that procurement, except as provided for in Article 157. 2. The information in each notice of intended procurement shall include a description of the intended procurement, any conditions that suppliers must fulfill to participate in the procurement, the name of the procuring entity, the address where all documents relating to the procurement may be obtained and the time-limits for submission of tenders. 3. Each Party shall endeavor to ensure that its procuring entities make publicly available notices of intended procurement in a timely manner through means which offer the widest possible and non-discriminatory access to interested suppliers. These means may be accessible free of charge, through a single electronic point of access. 4. If, after making publicly available a notice of intended procurement in any case of intended procurement, but before the time set for opening or receipt of tenders as specified in the notice or the tender documentation, it becomes necessary to amend or re-issue the notice, the amendment or the re-issued notice shall be made publicly available in the same manner as the original notice. Any significant information given to one supplier with respect to a particular intended procurement shall be given simultaneously to all other suppliers concerned, in adequate time to permit the suppliers to consider such information and to respond to it.