4.13 Use of particular inputs
- 4 Tendering procedures - Professional services
- 4.1 Tendering authority procedures
- 4.2 Invitation to tender
- 4.3 Expedited tender procedures
- 4.4 Short-listed procedures
- 4.5 Tender evaluation specification
- 4.6 Tender evaluation process
- 4.7 Tender evaluation - Brook's Law method
- 4.8 Tender evaluation - weighted attribute method
- 4.9 Tender evaluation - target price method
- 4.10 Tender negotiation
- 4.11 Notification procedures
- 4.12 Conformity with RFT
- 4.13 Use of particular inputs
4.13 Use of particular inputs
4.13.1
A contract input shall only be made available by the tendering authority under the following conditions:
- The availability of the contract input is notified in the RFT;
- The contract input is available to all tenderers;
- The terms (including terms as to price) on which the contract input is available are specified in the RFT;
- The terms (including terms as to price) on which the contract input is actually made available are those specified in the RFT; and
- There is no compulsion on any tenderer to use that contract input.
4.13.2
Notwithstanding Section 4.13.1, the tendering authority may make a contract input available to a particular tenderer provided that the contract input is made available on terms which are usual for a contract of that type and at a price which is fair in the prevailing market. In this case the contract input need not be mentioned in the RFT.
4.13.3
Notwithstanding Section 4.13.2, where the successful tender did not contemplate or allow for the provision of a contract input by the tendering authority, this may still occur during the course of the contract, provided that the contract input is made available on the terms described in Section 4.13.2.
