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178 tal-2005 - Regolamenti tal-2005 dwar l-Akkwisti Pubbliċi ta’ Entitajiet li joperaw fis-Settur ta’ l-Ilma, l-Enerġija, it-Trasport u s-Servizzi Postali
Table of Provisions (86)
Statutory Text (86 Articles)
L.N. 178 of 2005
Public Procurement of Entities operating in the Water, Energy, Transport and
Postal Services Sectors Regulations, 2005
TITLE I
General provisions applicable to contracts and design contests
Chapter I
Basic terms
Citation, commencement and definitions
Chapter II
Definition of the activities and entities covered
Section 1
Entities
Contracting entities
Section 2
Activities
Gas, heat and electricity
Water
Transport services
Postal services
Exploration for, or extraction of, oil, gas, coal or other solid
fuels, and provision of ports and airports
Lists of contracting entities
Contracts covering several activities
Chapter III
General principles
Principles of awarding contracts
TITLE II
Rules applicable to contracts
Chapter I
General provisions
Economic operators
Conditions relating to Agreements concluded within the World
Trade Organisation
Confidentiality
Framework agreements
Dynamic purchasing systems
Thresholds and exclusion provisions
Thresholds
Contract thresholds
Methods of calculating the estimated value of contracts,
framework agreements and dynamic systems
Contracts and concessions and contracts subject to special
arrangements
Subsection 1 Works and service concessions
Works and service concessions
Subsection 2 Exclusions applicable to all contracting entities and to all types
of contract
Contracts awarded for purposes of resale or lease to third parties
Contracts awarded for purposes other than the pursuit of an
activity covered or for the pursuit of such an activity in a third
country
Contracts which are secret or require special security measures
Contracts awarded pursuant to international rules
Contracts awarded to an affiliated undertaking, to a joint venture
or to a contracting entity forming part of a joint venture
Subsection 3 Exclusions applicable to all contracting entities, but to service
contracts only
Contracts relating to certain services excluded from the scope of
these regulations
Service contracts awarded on the basis of an exclusive right
Subsection 4 Exclusions applicable to certain contracting entities only
Contracts awarded by certain contracting entities for the
purchase of water and for the supply of energy or of fuels for the
production of energy
Subsection 5 Contracts subject to special arrangements and the general
procedure in case of direct exposure to competition
Reserved contracts
Notice for competition
Contracts and framework agreements awarded by central
purchasing bodies
Procedure for establishing whether a given activity is directly
exposed to competition
Rules applicable to service contracts
Service contracts listed in Schedule XVIII
Service contracts listed in Schedule XIX
Mixed service contracts including services listed in Schedule
XVIII and services listed in Schedule XIX
Specific rules governing specifications and contract documents
Technical specifications
Communication of technical specifications
Variants
Subcontracting
Conditions for performance of contracts
Obligations relating to taxes, environmental protection,
employment protection provisions and working conditions
Procedures
Use of open, restricted and negotiated procedures
Rules on publication and transparency
Publication of notices
Periodic indicative notices and notices on the existence of a
system of qualification
Notices used as a means of calling for competition
Contract award notices
Form and manner of publication of notices
Time limits
Time limits for the receipt of requests to participate and for the
receipt of tenders
Open procedures: specifications, additional documents and
information
Invitations to submit a tender or to negotiate
Communication and information
Rules applicable to communication
Information to applicants for qualification, candidates and
tenderers
Information to be stored concerning awards
Chapter VII Conduct of the procedure
General provisions
Qualification and qualitative selection
Mutual recognition concerning administrative, technical or
financial conditions, and certificates, tests and evidence
Qualification systems
Criteria for qualitative selection
Award of the contract
Contract award criteria
Use of electronic auctions
Abnormally low tenders
Tenders comprising products originating in third countries and
relations with those countries
Tenders comprising products originating in third countries
Relations with third countries as regards works, supplies and
service contracts
TITLE III
Rules governing service design contests
General provision
Thresholds
Design contests excluded
Rules on advertising and transparency
Means of communication
Rules on the organisation of design contests, the selection of
participants and the panel
Decisions of the panel
TITLE IV
Statistical obligations
Statistical obligations
TITLE V
Application of Public Contracts Regulations
Application of Public Contracts Regulations, 2005
Contracting entities in the sectors of transport or distribution
of gas or heat
Contracting entities in the sectors of production, transport or
distribution of electricity
Contracting entities in the sectors of production, transport or
distribution of drinking water
Contracting entities in the field of rail services
Contracting entities in the field of urban railway, tramway,
trolleybus or bus services
Contracting entities in the postal services sector
Contracting entities in the sectors of exploration for and
extraction of oil or gas
Contracting entities in the sectors of exploration for and
extraction of coal and other solid fuels
Contracting entities in the field of maritime or inland port or
other terminal facilities
Contracting entities in the field of airport installations
List of Community legislation referred to in regulation 30(3)
List of activities as set out in the definition of ''Works
contracts'' in regulation 1
Information to be included in contract notices
A.
Open procedures
B.
Restricted procedures
C.
Negotiated procedures
D.
Simplified contract notice for use in a dynamic
purchasing system
Information to be included in the notice on the existence of a
system of qualification
Information to be included in the periodic indicative notice
Information to be included in notices of publication of a
periodic notice on a buyer profile not used as a means of
calling for competition
Information to be included in the contract award notice
Schedule XVIII Services within the meaning of regulation 31
Services within the meaning of regulation 32
Information to be included in the design contest notice
Information to be included in the results of design contest
notices
Features concerning publication
Schedule XXIII Definition of certain technical specifications
Schedule XXIV Summary table of the time limits laid down in regulation 45
International labour law provisions within the meaning of
regulation 59(3)
Schedule XXVI Requirements relating to equipment for the electronic receipt
of tenders, requests to participate, applications for
qualification as well as plans and projects in contests
L.N. 178 of 2005
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION AND AUDIT ACT
(CAP. 174)
Public Procurement of Entities operating in the Water, Energy,
Transport and Postal Services Sectors Regulations, 2005
BY VIRTUE of the powers conferred by article 4 of the
Financial Administration and Audit Act, the Prime Minister and
Minister of Finance has made the following regulations:-
TITLE I
GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO
CONTRACTS AND DESIGN CONTESTS
CHAPTER I
Basic terms
(1) The title of these regulations is the Public Citation,
Procurement of Entities operating in the Water, Energy, Transport and commencement
and definitions.
Postal Services Sectors Regulations, 2005.
(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 3rd June,
2005. (3) For the purposes of these regulations, and unless the
context otherwise requires, the following definitions shall apply:-
"candidate" means an economic operator who has sought an
invitation to take part in a restricted or negotiated procedure;
"Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)" means the reference
nomenclature applicable to public contracts as adopted by Regulation
(EC) No 2195/2002 of 5 November 2002 of the European Parliament
and of the Council on the Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
while ensuring equivalence with the other existing nomenclatures
Provided that, in the event of varying interpretations of the
scope of these regulations, owing to possible differences between the
CPV and NACE nomenclatures listed in Schedule XII or between the
CPV and CPC (provisional version) nomenclatures listed in
Schedules XVIII or XIX, the NACE or the CPC nomenclature
respectively shall take precedence;
"contractor", "supplier" or "service provider" mean either a
natural or a legal person, or a contracting entity within the meaning of
regulation 2(2)(a) or (b), or a group of such persons and, or entities
which offers on the market, respectively, the execution of works and,
or a work, products or services;
"design contests" are those procedures which enable the
contracting entity to acquire, mainly in the fields of town and country
planning, architecture, engineering or data processing, a plan or
design selected by a jury after having been put out to competition
with or without the award of prizes;
"dynamic purchasing system" is a completely electronic process
for making commonly used purchases, the characteristics of which, as
generally available on the market, meet the requirements of the
contracting entity, which is limited in duration and open throughout
its validity to any economic operator which satisfies the selection
criteria and has submitted an indicative tender that complies with the
specification;
"economic operator" shall cover equally the concepts of
contractor, supplier and service provider. It is used merely in the
interests of simplification; "tenderer" is an economic operator who
submits a tender;
"electronic auction" is a repetitive process involving an
electronic device for the presentation of new prices, revised
downwards, and, or new values concerning certain elements of
tenders, which occurs after an initial full evaluation of the tenders,
enabling them to be ranked using automatic evaluation methods.
Consequently, certain service contracts and certain works contracts
having as their subject-matter intellectual performances, such as the
design of works, may not be the object of electronic auctions;
"electronic means" means using electronic equipment for the
processing (including digital compression) and storage of data which
is transmitted, conveyed and received by wire, by radio, by optical
means or by other electromagnetic means;
"framework agreement" is an agreement between one or more
contracting entities referred to in regulation 2(2) and one or more
economic operators, the purpose of which is to establish the terms
governing contracts to be awarded during a given period, in particular
with regard to price and, where appropriate, the quantities envisaged;
"open, restricted and negotiated procedures" are the
procurement procedures applied by contracting entities, whereby
(a)
in the case of open procedures, any interested
economic operator may submit a tender;
(b) in the case of restricted procedures, any economic
operator may request to participate and only candidates invited
by the contracting entity may submit a tender;
(c)
in the case of negotiated procedures, the contracting
entity consults the economic operators of its choice and
negotiates the terms of the contract with one or more of these;
"service concession" is a contract of the same type as a service
contract except for the fact that the consideration for the provision of
services consists either solely in the right to exploit the service or in
that right together with payment;
"service contracts" are contracts other than works or supply
contracts having as their object the provision of services referred to in
Schedules XVIII or XIX
Provided that a contract having as its object both products
and services within the meaning of Schedules XVIII or XIX shall be
considered to be a "service contract" if the value of the services in
question exceeds that of the products covered by the contract
Provided further that a contract having as its object
services within the meaning of Schedules XVIII or XIX and including
activities within the meaning of Schedule XII that are only incidental
to the principal object of the contract shall be considered to be a
service contract;
"supply contracts" are contracts other than those referred to in
the definition of "works contracts", having as their object the
purchase, lease, rental or hire-purchase, with or without the option to
buy, of products
Provided that a contract having as its object the supply of
products, which also covers, as an incidental matter, siting and
installation operations shall be considered to be a "supply contract";
"supply, works and service contracts" are contracts for
pecuniary interest concluded in writing between one or more of the
contracting entities referred to in regulation 2(2), and one or more
contractors, suppliers, or service providers;
"works concession" is a contract of the same type as a works
contract except for the fact that the consideration for the works to be
carried out consists either solely in the right to exploit the work or in
that right together with payment;
"works contracts" are contracts having as their object either the
execution, or both the design and execution, of works related to one
of the activities within the meaning of Schedule XII; or a work, or the
realisation by whatever means of a work corresponding to the
requirements specified by the contracting entity; "work" means the
outcome of building or civil engineering works taken as a whole
which is sufficient of itself to fulfil an economic or technical
function;
"written" or "in writing" means any expression consisting of
words or figures that can be read, reproduced and subsequently
communicated. It may include information transmitted and stored by
electronic means.
CHAPTER II
Definition of the activities and entities covered
Section 1
Entities
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE SECTORS OF TRANSPORT OR
DISTRIBUTION OF GAS OR HEAT
None
(1)
For the purposes of these regulations -
"a body governed by public law" means any body
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established for the specific purpose of meeting
needs in the general interest, not having an industrial
or commercial character,
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having legal personality, and
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financed, for the most part, by the State, regional or
local authorities, or other bodies governed by public
law; or subject to management supervision by those
bodies; or having an administrative, managerial or
supervisory board, more than half of whose
members are appointed by the State, regional or
local authorities, or by other bodies governed by
public law;
"contracting authorities" are State, regional or local authorities,
bodies governed by public law, associations formed by one or several
such authorities or one or several of such bodies governed by public
law;
"public undertaking" is any undertaking over which the
contracting authorities may exercise directly or indirectly a dominant
influence by virtue of their ownership of it, their financial
participation therein, or the rules which govern it. A dominant
influence on the part of the contracting authorities shall be presumed
when these authorities, directly or indirectly, in relation to an
undertaking
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hold the majority of the undertaking's subscribed
capital, or
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control the majority of the votes attaching to shares
issued by the undertaking, or
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can appoint more than half of the undertaking's
administrative, management or supervisory body.
(2) This regulation shall apply to contracting entities
(a)
which are contracting authorities or public
undertakings and which pursue one of the activities referred to
in regulations 3 to 7;
(b) which, when they are not contracting authorities or
public undertakings, have as one of their activities any of the
activities referred to in regulations 3 to 7, or any combination
thereof and operate on the basis of special or exclusive rights
granted by a competent authority of Malta.
(3) "Special or exclusive rights" mean rights granted by way
of any legislative, regulatory or administrative provision the effect of
which is to limit the exercise of activities defined in regulations 3 to 7
to one or more entities, and which substantially affects the ability of
other entities to carry out such activity.
Section 2
Activities
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE SECTORS OF PRODUCTION,
TRANSPORT OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY
1. Enemalta Corporation
(1) As far as gas and heat are concerned, these Gas, heat and
electricity.
regulations shall apply to the following activities
(a)
the provision or operation of fixed networks
intended to provide a service to the public in connection with
the production, transport or distribution of gas or heat; or
(b)
the supply of gas or heat to such networks.
(2) The supply of gas or heat to networks which provide a
service to the public by a contracting entity other than a contracting
authority shall not be considered a relevant activity within the
meaning of subregulation (1) where
(a)
the production of gas or heat by the entity concerned
is the unavoidable consequence of carrying out an activity other
than those referred to in subregulation (1) or (3) of this
regulation or in regulations 4 to 7; and
(b) supply to the public network is aimed only at the
economic exploitation of such production and amounts to not
more than twenty per cent of the entity's turnover having regard
to the average for the preceding three years, including the
current year.
(3) As far as electricity is concerned, these regulations shall
apply to the following activities
(a)
the provision or operation of fixed networks
intended to provide a service to the public in connection with
the production, transport or distribution of electricity; or
(b)
the supply of electricity to such networks.
(4) The supply of electricity to networks which provide a
service to the public by a contracting entity other than a contracting
authority shall not be considered a relevant activity within the
meaning of subregulation (3) where
(a)
the production of electricity by the entity concerned
takes place because its consumption is necessary for carrying
out an activity other than those referred to in subregulations (1)
or (3) of this regulation or in regulations 4 to 7; and
(b) supply to the public network depends only on the
entity's own consumption and has not exceeded thirty per cent
of the entity's total production of energy, having regard to the
average for the preceding three years, including the current year.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE SECTORS OF PRODUCTION,
TRANSPORT OR DISTRIBUTION OF DRINKING WATER
1. Water Services Corporation
2. Water Desalination Services
(1)
These regulations shall apply to the following
activities
(a)
the provision or operation of fixed networks
intended to provide a service to the public in connection with
the production, transport or distribution of drinking water; or
(b)
the supply of drinking water to such networks.
(2) These regulations shall also apply to contracts or design
contests awarded or organised by entities which pursue an activity
referred to in subregulation (1) and which
(a)
are connected with hydraulic engineering projects,
irrigation or land drainage, provided that the volume of water to
be used for the supply of drinking water represents more than
twenty per cent of the total volume of water made available by
such projects or irrigation or drainage installations, or
(b)
are connected with the disposal or treatment of
sewage.
(3) The supply of drinking water to networks which provide a
service to the public by a contracting entity other than a contracting
authority shall not be considered a relevant activity within the
meaning of subregulation (1) where
(a)
the production of drinking water by the entity
concerned takes place because its consumption is necessary for
carrying out an activity other than those referred to in
regulations 3 to 7; and
(b) supply to the public network depends only on the
entity's own consumption and has not exceeded thirty per cent
of the entity's total production of drinking water, having regard
to the average for the preceding three years, including the
current year.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF RAIL SERVICES
None
(1) (a) These regulations shall apply to activities Transport
relating to the provision or operation of networks providing a service services.
to the public in the field of transport by railway, automated systems,
tramway, trolley bus, bus or cable.
(b) As regards transport services, a network shall
be considered to exist where the service is provided under operating
conditions laid down by a competent authority of Malta, such as
conditions on the routes to be served, the capacity to be made
available or the frequency of the service.
(2) These regulations shall not apply to entities providing bus
transport services to the public which were excluded from the scope
of Directive 93/38/EEC pursuant to Article 2(4) thereof.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF URBAN RAILWAY,
TRAMWAY, TROLLEYBUS OR BUS SERVICES
None
(1) These regulations shall apply to activities relating to Postal services.
the provision of postal services or, on the conditions set out in
subregulation (2)(c), other services than postal services.
(2) For the purpose of these regulations and without prejudice
to Directive 97/67/EC
(a)
"postal item": means an item addressed in the final
form in which it is to be carried, irrespective of weight. In
addition to items of correspondence, such items also include for
instance books, catalogues, newspapers, periodicals and postal
packages containing merchandise with or without commercial
value, irrespective of weight;
(b) "postal services": means services consisting of the
clearance, sorting, routing and delivery of postal items. These
services comprise
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"reserved postal services": postal services
which are or may be reserved on the basis of Article 7 of
Directive 97/67/EC,
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"other postal services": postal services which
may not be reserved on the basis of Article 7 of Directive
97/67/EC; and
(c)
"other services than postal services": means services
provided in the following areas
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mail service management services (services
both preceding and subsequent to despatch, such as
"mailroom management services"),
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added-value services linked to and provided
entirely by electronic means (including the secure
transmission of coded documents by electronic means,
address management services and transmission of
registered electronic mail),
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services concerning postal items not included
in paragraph (a), such as direct mail bearing no address,
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financial services, as defined in category 6 of
Schedule XVIII and in regulation 24(c) and including in
particular postal money orders and postal giro transfers,
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philatelic services, and
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logistics services (services combining
physical delivery and, or warehousing with other non-
postal functions),
on condition that such services are provided by an entity which
also provides postal services within the meaning of paragraph
(b), first or second indent, and provided that the conditions set
out in regulation 30(1) are not satisfied in respect of the services
falling within those indents.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE POSTAL SERVICES SECTOR
1. Maltapost plc.
These regulations shall apply to activities relating to the Exploration for,
or extraction of,
exploitation of a geographical area for the purpose of
oil, gas, coal or
other solid fuels,
exploring for or extracting oil, gas, coal or other and
(a)
ports and
airports.
solid fuels, or
(b) the provision of airports and maritime or inland
ports or other terminal facilities to carriers by air, sea or inland
waterway.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE SECTORS OF EXPLORATION FOR
AND EXTRACTION OF OIL OR GAS
1. Oil Exploration Division at the Ministry for Resources and
Infrastructure
The non-exhaustive lists of contracting entities within the Lists of
meaning of these regulations are contained in Schedules I to X. contracting
entities.
Change to the said lists shall be notified to the Commission.
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE SECTORS OF EXPLORATION FOR
AND EXTRACTION OF COAL AND OTHER SOLID FUELS
None
(1) A contract which is intended to cover several Contracts
activities shall be subject to the rules applicable to the activity for covering
activities.
which it is principally intended
Provided that the choice between awarding a single
contract and awarding a number of separate contracts may not be
made with the objective of excluding it from the scope of this
regulation.
(2) If one of the activities for which the contract is intended is
subject to this regulation and if it is objectively impossible to
determine for which activity the contract is principally intended, the
contract shall be awarded in accordance with this regulation without
reference to these regulations.
(3) If one of the activities for which the contract is intended is
subject to these regulations and the other is not subject to this
regulation and if it is objectively impossible to determine for which
activity the contract is principally intended, the contract shall be
awarded in accordance with these regulations.
CHAPTER III
General principles
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF MARITIME OR INLAND
PORT OR OTHER TERMINAL FACILITIES
None
Contracting entities shall treat economic operators equally Principles of
awarding
and non-discriminatorily and shall act in a transparent way.
contracts.
TITLE II
RULES APPLICABLE TO CONTRACTS
CHAPTER I
General provisions
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF AIRPORT INSTALLATIONS
None
(1) Candidates or tenderers who, under the law of the
Member State in which they are established, are entitled to provide
the relevant service, shall not be rejected solely on the ground that,
under the law of Malta, they would be required to be either natural or
legal persons
Provided that in the case of service and works contracts as
well as supply contracts covering in addition services and, or siting
and installation operations, legal persons may be required to indicate,
in the tender or the request to participate, the names and relevant
professional qualifications of the staff to be responsible for the
performance of the contract in question.
(2) Groups of economic operators may submit tenders or put
themselves forward as candidates. In order to submit a tender or a
request to participate, these groups may not be required by the
contracting entities to assume a specific legal form; however, the
group selected may be required to do so when it has been awarded the
contract, to the extent to which this change is necessary for the
satisfactory performance of the contract.
LIST OF COMMUNITY LEGISLATION REFERRED TO
IN REGULATION 30(3)
TRANSPORT OR DISTRIBUTION OF GAS OR HEAT
Directive 98/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 June
1998 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas. (1)
PRODUCTION,
TRANSMISSION
OR
DISTRIBUTION
OF
ELECTRICITY
Directive 96/92/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19
December 1996 concerning common rules for the internal market in
electricity. (2)
PRODUCTION, TRANSPORT OR DISTRIBUTION OF DRINKING
WATER
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF RAIL SERVICES
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF URBAN RAILWAY,
TRAMWAY, TROLLEYBUS OR MOTOR BUS SERVICES
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF POSTAL SERVICES
Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15
December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market
of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service. (3)
EXPLORATION FOR AND EXTRACTION OF OIL OR GAS
Directive 94/22/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May
1994 on the conditions for granting and using authorisations for the
prospection, exploration and production of hydrocarbons. (4)
EXPLORATION FOR AND EXTRACTION OF COAL OR OTHER
SOLID FUELS
CONTRACTING ENTITIES IN THE FIELD OF SEAPORT OR
INLAND PORT OR OTHER TERMINAL EQUIPMENT
CONTRACTING ENTITIES
IN
THE
FIELD
OF
AIRPORT
INSTALLATIONS
(1)
OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 1.
(2)
OJ L 27, 30.1.1997, p. 20.
(3)
OJ L 15, 21.1.1998, p. 14. Directive last amended by Directive 2002/39/EC (OJ L
176, 5.7.2002, p. 21).
(4)
OJ L 164, 30.6.1994, p. 3.
For the purposes of the award of contracts by contracting
entities, the conditions shall be as favourable as those which they
grant to economic operators of third countries in implementation of
an agreement concluded within the World Trade Organisation.
LIST OF ACTIVITIES AS SET OUT IN THE DEFINTION
OF "WORKS CONTRACTS" IN REGULATION 1 (1)
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
Construction
This division includes
construction of new buildings and
works, restoring and common
repairs
45.1
Site preparation
45.11 Demolition and This class includes
wrecking of
- demolition of buildings and other
buildings;
structures
earth moving
- clearing of building sites
- earth moving: excavation,
landfill, levelling and grading of
construction sites, trench digging,
rock removal, blasting, etc.
- site preparation for mining
overburden removal and other
development and preparation of
mineral properties and sites
This class also includes
- building site drainage
- drainage of agricultural or
forestry land
45.12 Test drilling and This class includes
boring
- test drilling, test boring and core
sampling for construction,
geophysical, geological or similar
purposes
This class excludes
- drilling of production oil or gas
wells, see 11.20
- water well drilling, see 45.25
- shaft sinking, see 45.25
- oil and gas field exploration,
geophysical, geological and
seismic surveying, see 74.20
45.2
Building of
complete
constructions or
parts thereof;
civil engineering
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
45.21 General
This class includes
45210000
construction of construction of all types of
buildings and
buildings
civil engineering
construction of civil engineering
works
constructions
bridges, including those for
elevated highways, viaducts,
tunnels and subways long-distance
pipelines, communication and
power lines
urban pipelines, urban
communication and power lines;
ancillary urban works
assembly and erection of
prefabricated constructions on the
site
This class excludes
service activities incidental to oil
and gas extraction, see 11.20
erection of complete prefabricated
constructions from self-
manufactured parts not of concrete,
see divisions 20, 26 and 28
construction work, other than
buildings, for stadiums, swimming
pools, gymnasiums, tennis courts,
golf courses and other sports
installations, see 45.23
building installation, see 45.3
building completion, see 45.4
architectural and engineering
activities, see 74.20
project management for
construction, see 74.20
45.22 Erection of roof This class includes
45220000
covering and
erection of roofs
frames
roof covering
waterproofing
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
45.23 Construction of This class includes
45230000
highways, roads,
construction of highways, streets,
airfields and
roads, other vehicular and
sport facilities
pedestrian ways
construction of railways
construction of airfield runways
construction work, other than
buildings, for stadiums, swimming
pools, gymnasiums, tennis courts,
golf courses and other sports
installations
painting of markings on road
surfaces and car parks
This class excludes
preliminary earth moving, see
45.11
45.24 Construction of
This class includes construction of: 45240000
water projects
waterways, harbour and river
works, pleasure ports (marinas),
locks, etc.
dams and dykes dredging
subsurface work
45.25 Other
This class includes
45250000
construction
construction activities specialising
work involving
in one aspect common to different
special trades
kinds of structures, requiring
specialised skill or equipment
construction of foundations,
including pile driving
water well drilling and
construction, shaft sinking
erection of non-self-manufactured
steel elements
steel bending
bricklaying and stone setting
scaffolds and work platform
erecting and dismantling, including
renting of scaffolds and work
platforms
erection of chimneys and industrial
ovens
This class excludes
renting of scaffolds without
erection and dismantling, see 71.32
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
45.3
Building
45300000
installation
45.31 Installation of
This class includes
45310000
electrical wiring
installation in buildings or other
and fittings
construction projects of
electrical wiring and fittings
telecommunications systems
electrical heating systems
residential antennas and aerials
fire alarms
burglar alarm systems
lifts and escalators
lightning conductors, etc.
45.32 Insulation work
This class includes
45320000
activities
installation in buildings or other
construction projects of thermal,
sound or vibration insulation
This class excludes
waterproofing, see 45.22
45.33 Plumbing
This class includes
45330000
installation in buildings or other
construction projects of
plumbing and sanitary equipment
gas fittings
heating, ventilation, refrigeration
or air-conditioning equipment and
ducts
sprinkler systems
This class excludes
installation of electrical heating
systems, see 45.31
45.34 Other building
This class includes
45340000
installation
installation of illumination and
signalling systems for roads,
railways, airports and harbours
installation in buildings or other
construction projects of fittings and
fixtures n.e.c.
45.4
Building
45400000
completion
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
45.41 Plastering
This class includes
45410000
application in buildings or other
construction projects of interior
and exterior plaster or stucco,
including related lathing materials
45.42 Joinery
This class includes
45420000
installation
installation of not self-
manufactured doors, windows,
door and window frames, fitted
kitchens, staircases, shop fittings
and the like, of wood or other
materials
interior completion such as
ceilings, wooden wall coverings,
movable partitions, etc.
This class excludes
laying of parquet and other wood
floor coverings, see 45.43
45.43 Floor and wall
This class includes
45430000
covering
laying, tiling, hanging or fitting in
buildings or other construction
projects of
ceramic, concrete or cut stone wall
or floor tiles
parquet and other wood floor
coverings, carpets and linoleum
floor coverings, including of rubber
or plastic
terrazzo, marble, granite or slate
floor or wall coverings
wallpaper
45.44 Painting and
This class includes
45440000
glazing
interior and exterior painting of
buildings, painting of civil
engineering structures
installation of glass, mirrors, etc
This class excludes
installation of windows, see 45.42
NACE (2)
SECTION F
CONSTRUCTION
CPV CODE
DIVISION GROUP CLASS
SUBJECT
NOTES
45.45 Other building This class includes
45450000
completion
installation of private swimming
pools, steam cleaning, sand
blasting and similar activities for
building exteriors
other building completion and
finishing work n.e.c
This class excludes
interior cleaning of buildings and
other structures, see 74.70
45.5
Renting of
45500000
construction or
demolition
equipment with
operator
45.50 Renting of
This class excludes
45500000
construction or
renting of construction or
demolition
demolition machinery and
equipment with
equipment without operators, see
operator
(1) In the context of provision of technical
specifications to interested economic operators, of qualification and
selection of economic operators and of award of contracts,
contracting entities may impose requirements with a view to
protecting the confidential nature of information which they make
available.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of these regulations, in
particular those concerning the obligations relating to the advertising
of awarded contracts and to the information to candidates and
tenderers set out in regulations 43 and 49, and in accordance with the
laws of Malta, the contracting authority shall not disclose information
forwarded to it by economic operators which they have designated as
confidential; such information includes, in particular, technical or
trade secrets and the confidential aspects of tenders.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN CONTRACT NOTICES
A.
OPEN PROCEDURES
1. Name, address, telegraphic address, electronic address, telephone
number, telex and fax number of the contracting entity.
2. Where appropriate, state whether the contract is reserved for sheltered
workshops or whether its performance is reserved in the context of sheltered
employment programmes.
3. Nature of the contract (supply, works or service, where appropriate,
state if it is a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system).
Category of service within the meaning of Schedule XVIII or XIX and
description (nomenclature reference No(s)).
Where appropriate, state whether tenders are requested for purchase, lease,
rental or hire purchase or any combination of these.
4. Place of delivery, site or place of performance of service.
5. For supplies and works
(a)
Nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied (nomenclature
reference No(s)), including any options for further procurement and, if
possible, the estimated time available for exercising these options as well as
the number of renewals, if any. In the case of recurring contracts, also, if
possible, an estimate of the timing of the subsequent calls for competition for
the goods to be procured or the nature and extent of the services to be
provided and general nature of the work (nomenclature reference No(s));
(b) Indication of whether the suppliers may tender for some and, or
all the goods required.
If, for works contracts, the work or the contract is subdivided into
several lots, the order of size of the different lots and the possibility of
tendering for one, for several or for all the lots;
(c)
For works contracts: information concerning the purpose of the
work or the contract where the latter also involves the drawing-up of
projects.
6. For services
(a)
The nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied, including
any options for further procurement and, if possible, the estimated time
available for exercising these options as well as the number of renewals, if
any. In the case of recurring contracts, also, if possible, an estimate of the
timing of the subsequent calls for competition for the services to be procured;
(b) Indication of whether the performance of the service is reserved
by law, regulation or administrative provision to a particular profession;
(c)
Reference of the law, regulation or administrative provision;
(d) Indication of whether legal persons should indicate the names and
professional qualifications of the staff to be responsible for the performance
of the service;
(e)
Indication of whether service providers may tender for a part of
the services concerned.
7. Where known, indication of whether authorisation to submit variants
exists or not.
8. Time limits for delivery or completion or duration of service contract
and, as far as possible, the starting date.
9. (a)
Address from which the contract documents and additional
documents may be requested.
(b) Where appropriate, the amount and terms of payment of the sum
to be paid to obtain such documents.
10. (a)
Final date for receipt of tenders or indicative tenders where a
dynamic purchasing system is introduced;
(b)
Address to which they should be sent;
(c)
Language or languages in which they should be drawn up.
11. (a)
Where applicable, the persons authorised to be present at the
opening of tenders;
(b)
Date, time and place of such opening.
12. Where applicable, any deposits and guarantees required.
13. Main terms concerning financing and payment and, or references to the
provisions in which these are contained.
14. Where appropriate, the legal form to be taken by the grouping of
economic operators to whom the contract is awarded.
15. Minimum economic and technical conditions required of the economic
operator to whom the contract is awarded.
16. Period during which the tenderer is bound to keep open his tender.
17. Where appropriate, particular conditions to which performance of the
contract is subject.
18. Criteria referred to in regulation 55 to be used for award of the contract
"lowest price" or "most economically advantageous tender". Criteria representing
the most economically advantageous tender as well as their weighting or, where
appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria shall be mentioned where
they do not appear in the specifications.
19. Where appropriate, the reference to publication in the Official Journal
of the European Union of the periodic information notice or of the notice of the
publication of this notice on the buyer profile to which the contract refers.
20. Name and address of the body responsible for appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning time limits for
lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address of the department from which this information may be
obtained.
21. Date of dispatch of the notice by the contracting entity.
22. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities (to be supplied by that Office).
23. Any other relevant information.
B.
RESTRICTED PROCEDURES
1. Name, address, telegraphic address, electronic address, telephone
number, telex and fax number of the contracting entity.
2. Where appropriate, state whether the contract is reserved for sheltered
workshops or whether its performance is reserved in the context of sheltered
employment programmes.
3. Nature of the contract (supplies, works or services; where appropriate,
state if it is a framework agreement).
Category of service within the meaning of Schedule XVIII or XIX and
description (nomenclature reference No(s)).
Where appropriate, state whether tenders are requested for purchase,
lease, rental or hire purchase or any combination of these.
4. Place of delivery, site or place of performance of service.
5. For supplies and works
(a)
The nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied
(nomenclature reference No(s)), including any options for further
procurement and, if possible, the estimated time available for exercising
these options as well as the number of renewals, if any. In the case of
recurring contracts, also, if possible, an estimate of the timing of the
subsequent calls for competition for the goods to be procured or the nature
and extent of the services to be provided and general nature of the work
(nomenclature reference No(s));
(b) Indication of whether the suppliers may tender for some and/or
all the goods required.
If, for works contracts, the work or the contract is subdivided into
several lots, the order of size of the different lots and the possibility of
tendering for one, for several or for all the lots;
(c)
Information concerning the purpose of the work or the contract
where the latter also involves the drawing-up of projects.
6. For services
(a)
The nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied, including
any options for further procurement and, if possible, the estimated time
available for exercising these options as well as the number of renewals, if
any. In the case of recurring contracts, also, if possible, an estimate of the
timing of the subsequent calls for competition for the services to be procured;
(b) Indication of whether the performance of the service is reserved
by law, regulation or administrative provision to a particular profession;
(c)
Reference to the law, regulation or administrative provision;
(d) Indication of whether legal persons should indicate the names and
professional qualifications of the staff to be responsible for the performance
of the service;
(e)
Indication of whether service providers may tender for a part of
the services concerned.
7. Where known, indication of whether authorisation to submit variants
exists or not.
8. Time limits for delivery or completion or duration of service contract
and, as far as possible, for starting.
9. Where appropriate, the legal form to be taken by the grouping of
economic operators to whom the contract is awarded.
10. (a)
Final date for receipt of requests to participate;
(b)
Address to which they should be sent;
(c)
Language or languages in which they should be drawn up.
11. Final date for dispatch of invitations to tender.
12. Where applicable, any deposits and guarantees required.
13. Main terms concerning financing and payment and, or references to the
provisions in which these are contained.
14. Information concerning the economic operator's position and the
minimum economic and technical conditions required of him.
15. Criteria referred to in regulation 55 to be used for award of the contract
"lowest price" or "most economically advantageous tender". Criteria representing
the most economically advantageous tender as well as their weighting or, where
appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria shall be mentioned where
they do not appear in the specifications or will not be indicated in the invitation to
tender.
16. Where appropriate, particular conditions to which performance of the
contract is subject.
17. Where appropriate, the reference to publication in the Official Journal
of the European Union of the periodic information notice or of the notice of the
publication of this notice on the buyer profile to which the contract refers.
18. Name and address of the body responsible for appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning time limits for
lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be obtained.
19. Date of dispatch of the notice by the contracting entities.
20. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities (to be supplied by that Office).
21. Any other relevant information.
C.
NEGOTIATED PROCEDURES
1. Name, address, telegraphic address, electronic address, telephone
number, telex and fax number of the contracting entity.
2. Where appropriate, state whether the contract is reserved for sheltered
workshops or whether its performance is reserved in the context of sheltered
employment programmes.
3. Nature of the contract (supplies, works or services; where appropriate,
state if it is a framework agreement).
Category of service within the meaning of Schedule XVIII or XIX and
description (nomenclature reference No(s)).
Where appropriate, state whether tenders are requested for purchase,
lease, rental or hire purchase or any combination of these.
4. Place of delivery, site or place of performance of service.
5. For supplies and works
(a)
The nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied
(nomenclature reference No(s)), including any options for further
procurement and, if possible, the estimated time available for exercising
these options as well as the number of renewals, if any. In the case of
recurring contracts, also, if possible, an estimate of the timing of the
subsequent calls for competition for the goods to be procured or the nature
and extent of the services to be provided and general nature of the work
(nomenclature reference No(s));
(b) Indication of whether the suppliers may tender for some and, or
all the goods required.
If, for works contracts, the work or the contract is subdivided into
several lots, the order of size of the different lots and the possibility of
tendering for one, for several or for all the lots;
(c)
For works contracts: information concerning the purpose of the
work or the contract where the latter also involves the drawing-up of
projects.
6. For services
(a)
The nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied, including
any options for further procurement and, if possible, the estimated time
available for exercising these options as well as the number of renewals, if
any. In the case of recurring contracts, also, if possible, an estimate of the
timing of the subsequent calls for competition for the services to be procured;
(b)
Indication of whether the performance of the service is reserved
by law, regulation or administrative provision to a particular profession;
(c)
Reference of the law, regulation or administrative provision;
(d) Indication of whether legal persons should indicate the names and
professional qualifications of the staff to be responsible for the performance
of the service;
(e)
Indication of whether service providers may tender for a part of
the services concerned.
7. Where known, indication of whether authorisation to submit variants
exists or not.
8. Time limits for delivery or completion or duration of service contract
and, as far as possible, for starting.
9. Where appropriate, the legal form to be taken by the grouping of
economic operators to whom the contract is awarded.
10. (a)
Final date for receipt of requests to participate;
(b)
Address to which they should be sent;
(c)
Language or languages in which they should be drawn up.
11. Where appropriate, any deposits and guarantees required.
12. Main terms concerning financing and payment and/or references to the
provisions in which these are contained.
13. Information concerning the economic operator's position and the
minimum economic and technical conditions required of him.
14. Criteria referred to in regulation 55 to be used for award of the contract
"lowest price" or "most economically advantageous tender". Criteria representing
the most economically advantageous tender as well as their weighting or, where
appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria shall be mentioned where
they do not appear in the specifications or will not be indicated in the invitation to
negotiate.
15. Where appropriate, the names and addresses of the economic operators
already selected by the contracting entity.
16. Where applicable, date(s) of previous publications in the Official
Journal of the European Union.
17. Where appropriate, particular conditions to which performance of the
contract is subject.
18. Where appropriate, the reference to publication in the Official Journal
of the European Union of the periodic information notice or of the notice of the
publication of this notice on the buyer profile to which the contract refers.
19. Name and address of the body responsible for appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning time limits for
lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be obtained.
20. Date of dispatch of the notice by the contracting entity.
21. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities (to be supplied by that Office).
22. Any other relevant information.
D.
SIMPLIFIED CONTRACT NOTICE FOR USE IN A DYNAMIC
PURCHASING SYSTEM (1)
1. Country of contracting entity.
2. Name and e-mail address of contracting entity.
3. Publication reference of the contract notice on the dynamic purchasing
system.
4. E-mail address at which the contract documents and additional
documents relating to the dynamic purchasing system are available.
5. Subject-matter of contract: description by reference number(s) of CPV
nomenclature and quantity or extent of the contract to be awarded.
6. Timeframe for submitting indicative tenders.
(1)
With a view to admission to the system in order to be able subsequently to participate
in the invitation to tender for the specific contract.
(1) Contracting entities may regard a framework Framework
agreement as a contract within the meaning of regulation 1(3) and agreements.
award it in accordance with these regulations.
(2) Where contracting entities have awarded a framework
agreement in accordance with these regulations, they may avail
themselves of regulation 40(3)(i) when awarding contracts based on
that framework agreement.
(3) Where a framework agreement has not been awarded in
accordance with these regulations, contracting entities may not avail
themselves of regulation 40(3)(i).
(4) Contracting entities may not misuse framework
agreements in order to hinder, limit or distort competition.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE NOTICE ON THE EXISTENCE
OF A QUALIFICATION SYSTEM
1. Name, address, telegraphic address, electronic address, telephone
number, telex and fax number of the contracting entity.
2. Where appropriate, state whether the contract is reserved for sheltered
workshops or whether its performance is reserved in the context of sheltered
employment programmes.
3. Purpose of the qualification system (description of the goods, services
or works or categories thereof to be procured through the system - nomenclature
reference No(s)).
4. Conditions to be fulfilled by the economic operators in view of their
qualification pursuant to the system and the methods according to which each of
those conditions will be verified. Where the description of such conditions and
verification methods is voluminous and based on documents available to interested
economic operators, a summary of the main conditions and methods and a
reference to those documents shall be sufficient.
5. Period of validity of the qualification system and the formalities for its
renewal.
6. Reference to the fact that the notice acts as the call for competition.
7. Address where further information and documentation concerning the
qualification system can be obtained (if different from the addresses mentioned
under 1).
8. Name and address of the body responsible for appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning time limits for
lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be obtained.
9. Where known, criteria referred to in regulation 55 to be used for award
of the contract: "lowest price" or "most economically advantageous tender".
Criteria representing the most economically advantageous tender as well as their
weighting or, where appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria, shall be
mentioned where they do not appear in the specifications or will not be indicated
in the invitation to tender or to negotiate.
10. Any other relevant information.
(1)
Contracting entities may use dynamic purchasing Dynamic
purchasing
systems.
systems.
(2) In order to set up a dynamic purchasing system,
contracting entities shall follow the rules of the open procedure in all
its phases up to the award of the contracts to be concluded under this
system. All tenderers who satisfy the selection criteria and have
submitted an indicative tender which complies with the specification
and any possible additional documents shall be admitted to the
system; indicative tenders may be improved at any time provided that
they continue to comply with the specification. With a view to setting
up the system and to the award of contracts under that system,
contracting entities shall use solely electronic means in accordance
with regulation 48(2) to (5).
(3) For the purposes of setting up the dynamic purchasing
system, contracting entities shall
(a)
publish a contract notice making it clear that a
dynamic purchasing system is involved;
(b) indicate in the specification, amongst other matters,
the nature of the purchases envisaged under that system, as well
as all the necessary information concerning the purchasing
system, the electronic equipment used and the technical
connection arrangements and specifications;
(c)
offer by electronic means, on publication of the
notice and until the system expires, unrestricted, direct and full
access to the specification and to any additional documents and
shall indicate in the notice the internet address at which such
documents may be consulted.
(4) (a)
Contracting entities shall give any economic
operator, throughout the entire period of the dynamic purchasing
system, the possibility of submitting an indicative tender and of being
admitted to the system under the conditions referred to in
subregulation (2). They shall complete evaluation within a maximum
of fifteen days from the date of submission of the indicative tender.
However, they may extend the evaluation period provided that no
invitation to tender is issued in the meantime.
(b) Contracting entities shall inform the tenderer
referred to in paragraph (a) at the earliest possible opportunity of its
admittance to the dynamic purchasing system or of the rejection of its
indicative tender.
(5) Each specific contract shall be the subject of an invitation
to tender. Before issuing the invitation to tender, contracting entities
shall publish a simplified contract notice inviting all interested
economic operators to submit an indicative tender, in accordance with
subregulation (4), within a time limit that may not be less than fifteen
days from the date on which the simplified notice was sent.
Contracting entities may not proceed with tendering until they have
completed evaluation of all the indicative tenders received within that
time limit.
(6) (a)
Contracting entities shall invite all tenderers
admitted to the system to submit a tender for each specific contract to
be awarded under the system. To that end, they shall set a time limit
for the submission of tenders.
(b) They shall award the contract to the tenderer which
submitted the best tender on the basis of the award criteria set out in
the contract notice for the establishment of the dynamic purchasing
system. Those criteria may, if appropriate, be formulated more
precisely in the invitation referred to in paragraph (a).
(7) A dynamic purchasing system may not last for more than
four years, except in duly justified exceptional cases. Contracting
entities may not resort to this system to prevent, restrict or distort
competition. No charges may be billed to the interested economic
operators or to parties to the system.
CHAPTER II
Thresholds and exclusion provisions
Section 1
Thresholds
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PERIODIC INDICATIVE
NOTICE
I.
HEADINGS TO BE COMPLETED IN ALL CASES
1. Name, address, telegraphic address, electronic address, telephone
number, telex and fax number of the contracting entity or the service from which
additional information may be obtained.
2. (a)
For supply contracts: nature and quantity or value of the services
or products to be supplied (nomenclature reference No(s)).
(b) For works contracts: nature and extent of the services to be
provided, the general characteristics of the work or of the lots by reference to the
work (nomenclature reference No(s)).
(c)
For service contracts: intended total procurement in each of the
service categories listed in Schedule XVIII (nomenclature reference No(s)).
3. Date of dispatch of the notice or of dispatch of the notice of the
publication of this notice on the buyer profile.
4. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities (to be supplied by that Office).
5. Any other relevant information.
II.
INFORMATION WHICH SHOULD BE SUPPLIED WHERE THE
NOTICE IS USED AS A MEANS OF CALLING FOR
COMPETITION OR PERMITS THE REDUCTION OF THE TIME
LIMITS FOR THE RECEIPT OF TENDERS
6. A reference to the fact that interested suppliers should advise the entity
of their interest in the contract or contracts.
7. Where appropriate, state whether the contract is reserved for sheltered
workshops or whether its performance is reserved in the context of sheltered
employment programmes.
8. Time limit for the receipt of applications for an invitation to tender or to
negotiate.
9. Nature and quantity of the goods to be supplied or general nature of the
work or category of service within the meaning of Schedule XVIII and description,
stating if framework agreement(s) are envisaged, including any options for further
procurement and the estimated time available for exercising these options as well
as the number of renewals, if any. In the case of recurring contracts, also, an
estimate of the timing of the subsequent calls for competition.
10. State whether purchase, lease, rental or hire-purchase or any
combination of these is involved.
11. Time limits for delivery or completion or duration of service contract
and, as far as possible, for starting.
12. Address to which interested undertakings should send their expressions
of interest in writing.
Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest.
Language or languages authorised for the presentation of candidatures
or tenders.
13. Economic and technical conditions, and financial and technical
guarantees required of suppliers.
14. (a)
Estimated date for initiating the award procedures in respect of
the contract or contracts (if known);
(b)
Type of award procedure (restricted or negotiated);
(c)
The amount of and payment details for any sum to be paid to
obtain documents concerning the consultation.
15. Where appropriate, particular conditions to which performance of the
contract is subject.
16. Name and address of the body responsible for appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning time limits for
lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax number
and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be obtained.
17. Where known, criteria referred to in regulation 55 to be used for award
of the contract: "lowest price" or "most economically advantageous tender".
Criteria representing the most economically advantageous tender as well as their
weighting or, where appropriate, the order of importance of these criteria shall be
mentioned, where they do not appear in the specifications, or will not be indicated
in the invitation to confirm interest referred to in regulation 47(5) or in the
invitation tender or to negotiate.
Save where they are ruled out by the exclusions in Contract
regulations 19 to 26 or pursuant to regulation 30, concerning the thresholds.
pursuit of the activity in question, this section shall apply to contracts
which have a value excluding value-added tax (VAT) estimated to be
no less than the following thresholds
(a)
Lm195,000 in the case of supply and service
contracts;
(b)
Lm2,448,000 in the case of works contracts.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN NOTICES OF PUBLICATION OF A
PERIODIC INDICATIVE NOTICE ON A BUYER PROFILE NOT USED AS A
MEANS OF CALLING FOR COMPETITION
1. Country of the contracting entity.
2. Name of the contracting entity.
3. Internet address of the "buyer profile" (URL).
4. CPV Nomenclature reference No(s).
(1) The calculation of the estimated value of a contract Methods of
shall be based on the total amount payable, net of VAT, as estimated calculating
estimated value
by the contracting entity. This calculation shall take account of the of contracts,
framework
estimated total amount, including any form of option and any agreements and
renewals of the contract. Where the contracting entity provides for dynamic
purchasing
prizes or payments to candidates or tenderers it shall take them into systems.
account when calculating the estimated value of the contract.
(2) Contracting entities may not circumvent these regulations
by splitting works projects or proposed purchases of a certain
quantity of supplies and, or services or by using special methods for
calculating the estimated value of contracts.
(3) With regard to framework agreements and dynamic
purchasing systems, the estimated value to be taken into
consideration shall be the maximum estimated value net of VAT of all
the contracts envisaged for the total term of the agreement or system.
(4) For the purposes of regulation 16, contracting entities shall
include in the estimated value of a works contract both the cost of the
works and the value of any supplies or services necessary for the
execution of the works, which they make available to the contractor.
(5) The value of supplies or services which are not necessary
for the performance of a particular works contract may not be added
to the value of the works contract when to do so would result in
removing the procurement of those supplies or services from the
scope of these regulations.
(6) (a)
Where a proposed work or purchase of services may
result in contracts being awarded at the same time in the form of
separate lots, account shall be taken of the total estimated value of all
such lots.
Where the aggregate value of the lots is equal to or exceeds the
threshold laid down in regulation 16, these regulations shall apply to
the awarding of each lot.
However, the contracting entities may waive such application in
respect of lots the estimated value of which, net of VAT, is less than
Lm32,000 for services or Lm400,000 for works, provided that the
aggregate value of those lots does not exceed twenty per cent of the
aggregate value of the lots as a whole.
(b) Where a proposal for the acquisition of similar
supplies may result in contracts being awarded at the same time in the
form of separate lots, account shall be taken of the total estimated
value of all such lots when applying regulation 16.
Where the aggregate value of the lots is equal to or exceeds the
threshold laid down in regulation 16, these regulations shall apply to
the awarding of each lot.
However, the contracting entities may waive such application in
respect of lots, the estimated value of which, net of VAT, is less than
Lm32,000, provided that the aggregate cost of those lots does not
exceed twenty per cent of the aggregate value of the lots as a whole.
(7) In the case of supply or service contracts which are regular
in nature or which are intended to be renewed within a given period,
the calculation of the estimated contract value shall be based on the
following
(a)
either the total actual value of the successive
contracts of the same type awarded during the preceding twelve
months or financial year adjusted, if possible, to take account of
the changes in quantity or value which would occur in the
course of the twelve months following the initial contract;
(b) or the total estimated value of the successive
contracts awarded during the twelve months following the first
delivery, or during the financial year if that is longer than twelve
months.
(8) The basis for calculating the estimated value of a contract
including both supplies and services shall be the total value of the
supplies and services, regardless of their respective shares. The
calculation shall include the value of the siting and installation
operations.
(9) With regard to supply contracts relating to the leasing, hire,
rental or hire purchase of products, the value to be taken as a basis for
calculating the estimated contract value shall be as follows
(a)
in the case of fixed-term contracts, if that term is
less than or equal to twelve months, the total estimated value for
the term of the contract or, if the term of the contract is greater
than twelve months, the total value including the estimated
residual value;
(b) in the case of contracts without a fixed term or the
term of which cannot be defined, the monthly value multiplied
by 48.
(10) For the purposes of calculating the estimated contract
value of service contracts, the following amounts shall, where
appropriate, be taken into account
(a)
the premium payable, and other
forms
of
remuneration, in the case of insurance services;
(b) fees, commissions, interest and other modes of
remuneration, in the case of banking and other financial
services;
(c)
fees, commissions payable and other forms of
remuneration, in the case of contracts involving design tasks.
(11) In the case of service contracts which do not indicate a
total price, the value to be used as the basis for calculating the
estimated contract value shall be
(a)
in the case of fixed-term contracts, if that term is
less than or equal to forty-eight months: the total value for their
full term;
(b) in the case of contracts without a fixed term or with
a term greater than forty-eight months: the monthly value
multiplied by 48.
Section 2
Contracts and concessions and contracts subject to special
arrangements
SUBSECTION 1
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
I.
Information for publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union (1)
1. Name and address of the contracting entity.
2. Nature of the contract (supplies, works or services and Nomenclature
reference No(s); where appropriate state if it is a framework agreement).
3. At least a summary indication of the nature and quantity of the products,
works or services provided.
4. (a)
Form of the call for competition (notice on the existence of a
system of qualification; periodic notice; call for tenders);
(b) Reference of publication of the notice in the Official Journal of
the European Union;
(c)
In the case of contracts awarded without a prior call for
competition, indication of the relevant provision of regulation 40(3) or regulation
32.
5. Award procedure (open, restricted or negotiated).
6. Number of tenders received.
7. Date of award of the contract.
8.
9. Name and address of the economic operator(s).
10. State, where appropriate, whether the contract has been, or may be,
subcontracted.
11. Price paid or the prices of the highest and lowest tenders taken into
account in the award of the contract.
12. Name and address of the body responsible for the appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning the time limit
for lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be
obtained.
13. Optional information
-
value and share of the contract which has been or may be
subcontracted to third parties,
-
award criteria.
II.
Information not intended for publication
14. Number of contracts awarded (where an award has been split between
several suppliers).
15. Value of each contract awarded.
16. Country of origin of the product or service (Community origin or non-
Community origin; if the latter, broken down by third country).
17. Which award criteria were used (most economically advantageous;
lowest price)?
18. Was the contract awarded to a tenderer who submitted a variant, in
accordance with regulation 36(1)?
19. Were any tenders excluded on the grounds that they were abnormally
low, in accordance with regulation 57?
20. Date of transmission of the notice by the contracting entity.
21. In the case of contracts for services listed in Schedule XIX, agreement
by the contracting entity to publication of the notice (regulation 43(4)).
(1)
Information in headings 6, 9 and 11 is deemed information not intended for
publication where the awarding entity considers that publication thereof might be
detrimental to a sensitive commercial interest.
These regulations shall not apply to works and service
concessions which are awarded by contracting entities carrying out
one or more of the activities referred to in regulations 3 to 7, where
those concessions are awarded for carrying out those activities.
SUBSECTION 2
Exclusions applicable to all contracting entities and to
all types of contract
SERVICES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION 31
Category
Subject
CPC Reference
CPV Reference No
No (1)
Maintenance and repair services
6 1 1 2 , 6 1 2 2 , From 50100000 to 50982000
633, 886
(except for 50310000 to
50324200 and 50116510-9,
50190000-3, 50229000-6,
50243000-0)
(2)
Land transport services , including 7 1 2 ( e x c e p t From 60112000-6 to
armoured car services, and courier 71235), 7512, 60129300-1 (except 60121000
services, except transport of mail
87304
to 60121600, 60122200-1,
60122230-0), and from
64120000-3 to 64121200-2
Air transport services of passengers and 7 3
( e x c e p t From 62100000-3 to
freight, except transport of mail
7321)
62300000-5 (except
62121000-6, 62221000-7)
Transport of mail by land (2) and by air 71235, 7321
60122200-1, 60122230-0
62121000-6, 62221000-7
Telecommunications services
From 64200000-8 to
64228200-2, 72318000-7, and
from 72530000-9 to
72532000-3
Financial services
ex 81, 812, 814 From 66100000-1 to
66430000-3 and
(a) Insurances services
From 67110000-1 to
(b) Banking and investment services (3)
67262000-1 (3)
Computer and related services
From 50300000-8 to
50324200-4,
From 72100000-6 to
72591000-4
(except 72318000-7 and
from 72530000-9 to
72532000-3)
Research and development services (4)
From 73000000-2 to
73300000-5
(except 73200000-4,
73210000-7, 7322000-0)
Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping 862
From 74121000-3 to
services
74121250-0
Market research and public opinion 864
From 74130000-9 to
polling services
74133000-0, and 74423100-1,
74423110-4
Subject
CPC Reference
CPV Reference No
No (1)
Management consulting services (5) and 865, 866
From 73200000-4 to
related services
73220000-0,
From 74140000-2 to
74150000-5
(except 74142200-8), and
74420000-9, 74421000-6,
74423000-0, 74423200-2,
74423210-5, 74871000-5,
93620000-0
Architectural services; engineering 867
From 74200000-1 to
services and integrated engineering
74276400-8, and
services; urban planning and landscape
From 74310000-5 to
engineering services; related scientific
74323100-0, and 74874000-
and technical consulting services;
technical testing and analysis services
Advertising services
From 74400000-3 to
74422000-3
(except 74420000-9 and
74421000-6)
Building-cleaning services and property 874, 82201 to From 70300000-4 to
management services
82206
70340000-6, and
From 74710000-9 to
74760000-4
Publishing and printing services on a fee 88442
From 78000000-7 to
or contract basis
78400000-1
Sewage and refuse disposal services; 94
From 90100000-8 to
sanitation and similar services
90320000-6, and 50190000-3,
50229000-6, 50243000-0
(1)
In the event of any difference of interpretation between the CPV and the CPC, the CPC
nomenclature will apply
(1)
CPC Nomenclature (provisional version), used to define the scope of Directive 93/38/EEC.
(2)
Except for rail transport services covered by category 18.
(3)
Except financial services in connection with the issue, sale, purchase or transfer of securities or
other financial instruments, and central bank services. Also excluded
services involving the acquisition or rental, by whatever financial procedures, of land, existing
buildings, or other immovable property or concerning rights thereon;
nevertheless, financial services supplied at the same time as, before or after the contract of
acquisition or rental, in whatever form, shall be subject to these regulations.
(4)
Except research and development services other than those where the benefits accrue exclusively
to the contracting authority for its use in the conduct of its own affairs on condition that the
service provided is wholly remunerated by the contracting authority.
(5)
Except arbitration and conciliation services.
(1) These regulations shall not apply to contracts
awarded for purposes of resale or lease to third parties, provided that
the contracting entity enjoys no special or exclusive right to sell or
lease the subject of such contracts, and other entities are free to sell or
lease it under the same conditions as the contracting entity.
(2) The contracting entities shall notify the Commission at its
request and the Director of all the categories of products or activities
which they regard as excluded under subregulation (1).
(3) The Commission may periodically publish in the Official
Journal of the European Union, and the Director may publish in the
Gazette, for information purposes, lists of the categories of products
and activities which it considers to be covered by this exclusion. In so
doing, the Commission and the Director shall respect any sensitive
commercial aspects that the contracting entities may point out when
forwarding information.
SERVICES WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION 32
Category
Subject
CPC Reference
CPV Reference No
No (1)
Hotel and restaurant services
From 55000000-0 to
55524000-9, and
From 93400000-2 to
93411000-2
Rail transport services
60111000-9, and
from 60121000-2 to
60121600-8
Water transport services
From 61000000-5 to
61530000-9, and
From 63370000-3 to
63372000-7
Supporting and auxiliary transport services 74
62400000-6, 62440000-8,
62441000-5, 62450000-1,
From 63000000-9 to
63600000-5
(except 63370000-3,
63371000-0,
63372000-7), and
74322000-2, 93610000-7
Legal services
From 74110000-3 to
74114000-1
Personnel placement and supply services (1) 872
From 74500000-4 to
74540000-6
(except 74511000-4), and
from 95000000-2 to
95140000-5
Investigation and security services, except 8 7 3 ( e x c e p t From 74600000-5 to
armoured car services
87304)
74620000-1
Education and vocational education
From 80100000-5 to
services
80430000-7
Health and social services
74511000-4, and
from 85000000-9 to
85323000-9 (except
85321000-5 and
85322000-2)
Recreational, cultural and sporting services 96
From 74875000-3 to
74875200-5, and
From 92000000-1 to
92622000-7
(except 92230000-2)
Other services
(1)
Except employment contracts.
(1) These regulations shall not apply to contracts which
the contracting entities award for purposes other than the pursuit of
their activities as described in regulations 3 to 7 or for the pursuit of
such activities in a third country, in conditions not involving the
physical use of a network or geographical area within the
Community.
(2) The contracting entities shall notify the Commission at its
request and the Director of any activities which they regard as
excluded under subregulation (1). The Commission may periodically
publish in the Official Journal of the European Union and the Director
may publish in the Gazette, for information purposes, lists of the
categories of activities which it considers to be covered by this
exclusion. In so doing, the Commission and the Director shall respect
any sensitive commercial aspects that the contracting entities may
point out when forwarding this information.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE DESIGN CONTEST NOTICE
1. Name, address, electronic address, telephone, telex and fax numbers of
the contracting authority and of the service from which additional documents may
be obtained.
2. Project description (nomenclature reference No(s)).
3. Nature of the contest: open or restricted.
4. In the case of open contests: final date for receipt of projects.
5. In the case of restricted contests
(a)
the number of participants envisaged, or range;
(b)
where applicable, names of participants already selected;
(c)
criteria for the selection of participants;
(d)
final date for receipt of requests to participate.
6. Where applicable, indication of whether participation is reserved to a
particular profession.
7. Criteria to be applied in the evaluation of projects.
8. Where applicable, names of the selected members of the panel.
9. Indication of whether the decision of the panel is binding on the
authority.
10. Where applicable, number and value of prizes.
11. Where applicable, details of payments to all participants.
12. Indication of whether the prize-winners are permitted any follow-up
contracts.
13. Name and address of the body responsible for the appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning the time limit
for lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be
obtained.
14. Date of dispatch of the notice.
15. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities.
16. Any other relevant information
These regulations shall not apply to contracts when they Contracts which
are declared to be secret by the competent authority in Malta, when are
require special
their performance must be accompanied by special security measures security
measures.
in accordance with the laws of Malta, or when the protection of the
basic security interests of Malta so requires.
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN THE RESULTS
OF DESIGN CONTEST NOTICES
1. Name, address, telegraphic address and telephone, telex and fax
numbers of the contracting authority.
2. Project description (nomenclature reference No(s)).
3. Total number of participants.
4. Number of foreign participants.
5. Winner(s) of the contest.
6. Where applicable, the prize(s).
7. Other information.
8. Reference of the design contest notice.
9. Name and address of the body responsible for the appeal and, where
appropriate, mediation procedures. Precise information concerning the time limit
for lodging appeals, or, if need be, the name, address, telephone number, fax
number and e-mail address of the service from which this information may be
obtained.
10. Date of dispatch of the notice.
11. Date of receipt of the notice by the Office for Official Publications of
the European Communities.
These regulations shall not apply to contracts governed by Contracts
awarded
different procedural rules and awarded
pursuant to
international
pursuant to an international agreement concluded in rules.
(a)
accordance with the EU Treaty between Malta and one or more
third countries and covering supplies, works, services or design
contests intended for the joint implementation or exploitation of
a project by the signatory States. All agreements shall be
communicated to the Commission;
(b) pursuant to a concluded international agreement
relating to the stationing of troops and concerning the
undertakings of Malta or a third country;
(c)
pursuant to the
particular
procedure
of
an
international organisation.
FEATURES CONCERNING PUBLICATION
1. Publication of notices
(a) Notices referred to in regulations 41, 42, 43 and 63 must be sent by the
contracting entities to the Office for Official Publications of the European
Communities in the format required by Commission Directive 2001/78/EC of 13
September 2001 amending Annex IV to Council Directive 93/36/EEC, Annexes
IV, V and VI to Council Directive 93/37/EEC, Annexes III and IV to Council
Directive 92/50/EEC, as amended by Directive 97/52/EC, and Annexes XII to XV,
XVII and XVIII to Council Directive 93/38/EEC, as amended by Directive 98/4/
EC (Directive on the use of standard forms in the publication of public contract
notices) (1) . The periodic indicative notices referred to in regulation 41(1),
published on a buyer profile as described in paragraph 2(b), must also use that
format, as must the notice of such publication;
(b) Notices referred to in regulations 41, 42, 43 and 63 must be published
by the Office for Official Publications of the European Communities or by the
contracting entities in the event of a periodic indicative notice published on a
buyer profile in accordance with regulation 41(1).
In addition, contracting authorities may publish this information on the
internet on a "buyer profile" as referred to in paragraph 2(b);
(c) The Office for Official Publications of the European Communities will
give the contracting authority the confirmation referred to in regulation 44(7).
2. Publication of complementary or additional information
(a) Contracting entities are encouraged to publish the specifications and the
additional documents in their entirety on the internet;
(b) The buyer profile may include periodic indicative notices as referred to
in regulation 41(1), information on ongoing invitations to tender, scheduled
purchases, contracts concluded, procedures cancelled and any useful general
information, such as a contact point, a telephone and a fax number, a postal address
and an e-mail address.
3. Format and procedures for the electronic transmission of notices
The format and procedure for sending notices electronically are
accessible at the internet address "http://simap.eu.int".
(1)
OJ L 285, 29.10.2001, p.1 and OJ L 214, 9.8.2002, p. 1.
(1) For the purposes of this regulation, "affiliated Contracts
undertaking" means any undertaking the annual accounts of which are awarded
affiliated
consolidated with those of the contracting entity in accordance with undertaking, to
a joint venture
the requirements of the Seventh Council Directive 83/349/EEC of 13 or to a
June 1983 based on the Article 44(2)(g) of the Treaty on consolidated contracting
entity forming
accounts, or, in the case of entities not subject to that Directive, any part of a joint
venture.
undertaking over which the contracting entity may exercise, directly
or indirectly, a dominant influence within the meaning of regulation
2(1)(b) or which may exercise a dominant influence over the
contracting entity or which, in common with the contracting entity, is
subject to the dominant influence of another undertaking by virtue of
ownership, financial participation, or the rules which govern it.
(2) Insofar as the conditions in subregulation (3) are met, these
regulations shall not apply to contracts awarded
(a)
by a contracting entity to an affiliated undertaking,
or
(b) by a joint venture, formed exclusively by a number
of contracting entities for the purpose of carrying out activities
within the meaning of regulations 3 to 7, to an undertaking
which is affiliated with one of these contracting entities.
(3) Subregulation (2) shall apply
(a)
to service contracts provided that at least eighty per
cent of the average turnover of the affiliated undertaking with
respect to services for the preceding three years derives from the
provision of such services to undertakings with which it is
affiliated;
(b)
to supplies contracts provided that at least eighty
per cent of the average turnover of the affiliated undertaking
with respect to supplies for the preceding three years derives
from the provision of such supplies to undertakings with which
it is affiliated;
(c)
to works contracts provided that at least eighty per
cent of the average turnover of the affiliated undertaking with
respect to works for the preceding three years derives from the
provision of such works to undertakings with which it is
affiliated.
When, because of the date on which an affiliated
undertaking was created or commenced activities, the turnover is not
available for the preceding three years, it will be sufficient for that
undertaking to show that the turnover referred to in paragraphs (a),
(b) or (c) is credible, particularly by means of business projections.
Where more than one undertaking affiliated with the
contracting entity provides the same or similar services, supplies or
works, the above percentages shall be calculated taking into account
the total turnover deriving respectively from the provision of services,
supplies or works by those affiliated undertakings.
(4) These regulations shall not apply to contracts awarded
(a)
by a joint venture, formed exclusively by a number
of contracting entities for the purpose of carrying out activities
within the meaning of regulations 3 to 7, to one of these
contracting entities, or
(b) by a contracting entity to such a joint venture of
which it forms part, provided that the joint venture has been set
up in order to carry out the activity concerned over a period of at
least three years and that the instrument setting up the joint
venture stipulates that the contracting entities, which form it,
will be part thereof for at least the same period.
(5) Contracting entities shall notify to the Commission, at its
request, and the Director at his request, the following information
regarding the application of subregulations (2), (3) and (4)
(a)
the names of the undertakings or joint ventures
concerned,
(b)
the nature and value of the contracts involved,
(c)
such proof as may be deemed necessary by the
Commission or the Director that the relationship between the
undertaking or joint venture to which the contracts are awarded
and the contracting entity complies with the requirements of this
regulation.
SUBSECTION 3
Exclusions applicable to all contracting entities, but to service
contracts only
DEFINITION OF CERTAIN TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
For the purposes of these regulations,
1. (a)
"Technical specification", in the case of service or supply
contracts, means a specification in a document defining the required characteristics
of a product or a service, such as quality levels, environmental performance levels,
design for all requirements (including accessibility for disabled persons) and
conformity assessment, performance, use of the product, safety or dimensions,
including requirements relevant to the product as regards the name under which
the product is sold, terminology, symbols, testing and test methods, packaging,
marking and labelling, user instructions, production processes and methods and
conformity assessment procedures;
(b) "Technical specification", in the case of works contracts, means
the totality of the technical prescriptions contained in particular in the tender
documents, defining the characteristics required of a material, product or supply,
which permits a material, a product or a supply to be described in a manner such
that it fulfils the use for which it is intended by the contracting entity. These
characteristics shall include levels of environmental performance, design for all
requirements (including accessibility for disabled persons) and conformity
assessment, performance, safety or dimensions, including the procedures
concerning quality assurance, terminology, symbols, testing and test methods,
packaging, marking and labelling, user instructions, and production processes and
methods. They shall also include rules relating to design and costing, the test,
inspection and acceptance conditions for works and methods or techniques of
construction and all other technical conditions which the contracting entity is in a
position to prescribe, under general or specific regulations, in relation to the
finished works and to the materials or parts which they involve;
2. "Standard" means a technical specification approved by a recognised
standardisation body for repeated or continuous application, compliance with
which is not compulsory and which falls into one of the following categories
-
"international standard": a standard adopted by an international
standards organisation and made available to the general public;
-
"European standard": a standard adopted by a European standards
organisation and made available to the general public;
-
"national standard": a standard adopted by a national standards
organisation and made available to the general public;
3. "European technical approval" means a favourable technical assessment
of the fitness for use of a product, based on the fulfilment of the essential
requirements for building works, by means of the inherent characteristics of the
product and the defined conditions of application and use. European technical
approvals are issued by an approval body designated for this purpose by the
Member State;
4. "Common technical specifications" means a technical specification laid
down in accordance with a procedure recognised by the Member States which has
been published in the Official Journal of the European Union;
5. "Technical reference": any product produced by European
standardisation bodies, other than official standards, according to procedures
adapted to developments in market needs.
These regulations shall not apply to service contracts for
Contracts
relating to
certain services
(a)
the acquisition or rental, by whatever financial
excluded from
the scope of
means, of land, existing buildings or other immovable property
these
regulations.
or concerning rights thereon; nevertheless, financial service
contracts concluded at the same time as, before or after the
contract of acquisition or rental, in whatever form, shall be
subject to these regulations;
(b)
arbitration and conciliation services;
(c)
financial services in connection with the issue, sale,
purchase or transfer of securities or other financial instruments,
in particular transactions by the contracting entities to raise
money or capital;
(d)
employment contracts;
(e)
research and development services other than those
where the benefits accrue exclusively to the contracting entity
for its use in the conduct of its own affairs, on condition that the
service provided is wholly remunerated by the contracting
entity.
Summary Table of the Time Limits laid down in regulation 45
Open procedures
Time limit for receipt of tenders - without a periodic indicative notice
Time limit
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
transmission of
documents
transmission subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 7 subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 7
contract
documents
none
With publication of a periodic indicative notice
A: Time limit in
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
general
transmission of
documents
transmission subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 7
subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 7
contract
documents
none
B: Minimum
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
time limit
transmission of
documents
transmission subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 7
subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 7
contract
documents
The period of
The period of
10 days is
17 days is
extended to 15
extended to 22
days
Restricted and negotiated procedures
Time limit for the receipt of requests to participate
General time
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
transmission of
documents
transmission subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8
subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
Not applicable
n.a.
none
(n.a.)
Minimum time
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
transmission of
documents
transmission subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8
subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
n.a.
n.a.
none
Minimum time
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
limit
transmission of
documents
transmission
subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8 subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
n.a.
n.a.
The period of 8
n.a.
days is
extended to 15
days
Time limit for the receipt of tenders
A: Time limit in
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
general
transmission of
documents
transmission
subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8 subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
none
B: Minimum
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
time limit
transmission of
documents
transmission
subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8 subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
The period of
5 days is
extended to 10
days
C: Time limit set
Electronic
Contract
Electronic
Effect on first
Effect on
by agreement transmission of
documents
transmission
subparagraph
second
the notice
available
plus
of paragraph 8 subparagraph
electronically
‘electronic’
of paragraph 8
contract
documents
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
These regulations shall not apply to service contracts
awarded to an entity which is itself a contracting authority within the
meaning of regulation 2(1)(a) or to an association of contracting
authorities on the basis of an exclusive right which they enjoy
pursuant to a published law, regulation or administrative provision
which is compatible with the Treaty.
SUBSECTION 4
Exclusions applicable to certain contracting entities only
INTERNATIONAL LABOUR LAW PROVISIONS WITHIN
THE MEANING OF REGULATION 59(3)
Convention 87 on Freedom of Association and the Protection of the
Right to Organise;
Convention 98 on the Right to Organise and Collective Bargaining;
Convention 29 on Forced Labour;
Convention 105 on the Abolition of Forced Labour;
Convention 138 on Minimum Age;
Convention 111 on Discrimination (Employment and Occupation);
Convention 100 on Equal Remuneration;
Convention 182 on Worst Forms of Child Labour.
These regulations shall not apply
(a)
to contracts for the purchase of water if awarded by
contracting entities engaged in one or both of the activities
referred to in regulation 4(1);
(b) to contracts for the supply of energy or of fuels for
the production of energy, if awarded by contracting entities
engaged in an activity referred to in regulation 3(1) or (3) or
regulation 7(a).
SUBSECTION 5
Contracts subject to special arrangements and the general
procedure in case of direct exposure to competition
REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO DEVICES FOR THE ELECTRONIC
RECEIPT OF TENDERS, REQUESTS TO PARTICIPATE, APPLICATIONS FOR
QUALIFICATION AS WELL AS PLANS AND PROJECTS IN CONTESTS
Devices for the electronic receipt of tenders, requests to participate,
applications for qualification as well as plans and projects in contests must
guarantee, through technical means and appropriate procedures, at least that
(a)
electronic signatures relating to tenders, requests to participate
and applications for qualification as well as to the forwarding of plans and
projects comply with national provisions adopted pursuant to Directive 1999/
93/EC (1) ;
(b) the exact time and date of the receipt of tenders, requests to
participate, applications for qualification as well as the submission of plans
and projects can be determined precisely;
(c)
it may be reasonably ensured that, before the time limits laid
down, no-one can have access to data transmitted under these requirements;
(d) if that access prohibition is infringed, it may be reasonably
ensured that the infringement is clearly detectable;
(e)
only authorised persons may set or change the dates for opening
data received;
(f)
during the various stages of the qualification procedure, the
contract award procedure or contest, access to all data submitted, or to part
thereof, must be possible only through simultaneous action by authorised
persons;
(g) simultaneous action by authorised persons must give access to
data transmitted only after the prescribed date;
(h) data received and opened in accordance with these requirements
must remain accessible only to persons authorised to acquaint themselves
therewith.
(1)
Directive 1999/93/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on a Community
framework for electronic signatures (OJ L 13, 19.1.2000, p. 12).
Contracting Authorities may reserve the right to participate
in contract award procedures to sheltered workshops or provide for
such contracts to be performed in the context of sheltered
employment programmes where most of the employees concerned are
handicapped persons who, by reason of the nature or the seriousness
of their disabilities, cannot carry on occupations under normal
conditions.
The notice used to make the call for competition shall
make reference to the provisions of regulation 27.
(1) Contracting entities may purchase works, supplies
and, or services from or through a central purchasing body.
(2) Contracting entities which purchase works, supplies and,
or services from or through a central purchasing body in the cases set
out in regulation 1, in the definition of "open, restricted and
negotiated procedures", shall be deemed to have complied with these
regulations insofar as the central purchasing body has complied with
it or, where appropriate, with the other parts of this regulation.
(1) Contracts intended to enable an activity mentioned Procedure for
in regulations 3 to 7 to be carried out shall not be subject to these establishing
whether a given
regulations if the activity is directly exposed to competition on activity is
directly exposed
markets to which access is not restricted.
to competition.
(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), the question of
whether an activity is directly exposed to competition shall be
decided on the basis of criteria that are in conformity with the Treaty
provisions on competition, such as the characteristics of the goods or
services concerned, the existence of alternative goods or services, the
prices and the actual or potential presence of more than one supplier
of the goods or services in question.
(3) (a)
For the purposes of subregulation (1), access to a
market shall be deemed not to be restricted if Malta has implemented
and applied the provisions of Community legislation mentioned in
Schedule XI.
(b) If free access to a given market cannot be presumed
on the basis of paragraph (a), it must be demonstrated that access to
the market in question is free de facto and de jure.
(4) (a)
When in compliance with subregulations (2) and (3),
subregulation (1) is applicable to a given activity, the contracting
entity shall notify the Commission and inform it of all relevant facts,
and in particular of any law, regulation, administrative provision or
agreement concerning compliance with the conditions set out in
subregulation (1), where appropriate together with the position
adopted by an independent national authority that is competent in
relation to the activity concerned.
(b) Contracts intended to enable the activity concerned
to be carried out shall no longer be subject to these regulations if the
Commission
-
has adopted a Decision establishing the applicability
of subregulation (1) in accordance with subregulation (6) and
within the period it provides for, or
-
has not adopted a Decision concerning such
applicability within that period.
(c)
However, where free access to a given market is
presumed on the basis of subregulation (3)(a), and where an
independent national authority that is competent in the activity
concerned has established the applicability of subregulation (1),
contracts intended to enable the activity concerned to be carried out
shall no longer be subject to these regulations if the Commission has
not established the inapplicability of subregulation (1) by a Decision
adopted in conformity with subregulation 6 and within the period it
provides for.
(5) (a)
Contracting entities may ask the Commission to
establish the applicability of subregulation (1) to a given activity by a
Decision in conformity with subregulation (6). In such a case, the
Commission shall immediately inform Malta which shall, taking
account of subregulations (2) and (3), inform the Commission of all
relevant facts, and in particular of any law, regulation, administrative
provision or agreement concerning compliance with the conditions
set out in subregulation (1), where appropriate together with the
position adopted by an independent national authority that is
competent in the activity concerned.
(b) The Commission may also begin the procedure for
adoption of a Decision establishing the applicability of subregulation
(1) to a given activity on its own initiative. In such a case, the
Commission shall immediately inform the Member State concerned.
(c)
If, at the end of the period laid down in
subregulation (6), the Commission has not adopted a Decision
concerning the applicability of subregulation (1) to a given activity,
subregulation (1) shall be deemed to be applicable.
(6) For the adoption of a Decision under this regulation, the
Commission shall be allowed a period of three months commencing
on the first working day following the date on which it receives the
notification or the request. However, this period may be extended
once by a maximum of three months in duly justified cases, in
particular if the information contained in the notification or the
request or in the documents annexed thereto is incomplete or inexact
or if the facts as reported undergo any substantive changes. This
extension shall be limited to one month where an independent
national authority that is competent in the activity concerned has
established the applicability of subregulation (1) in the cases provided
for under subregulation (4)(c).
When an activity in a given Member State is already the subject
of a procedure under this regulation, further requests concerning the
same activity in the same Member State before the expiry of the
period opened in respect of the first request shall not be considered as
new procedures and shall be treated in the context of the first request.
The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for applying
subregulations (4), (5) and (6).
These rules shall include at least
(a)
the publication in the Official Journal, for
information, of the date on which the three-month period
referred to in the first paragraph of this subregulation begins,
and in case this period is prolonged, the date of prolongation
and the period by which it is prolonged;
(b) publication of the possible applicability of
subregulation (1) in accordance with subregulation (4)(b) or (c)
or in accordance with subregulation (5); and
(c)
the arrangements for forwarding positions adopted
by an independent authority that is competent in the activity
concerned, regarding questions relevant to subregulations (1)
and (2).
CHAPTER III
Rules applicable to service contracts
Contracts which have as their object services listed in Service
Schedule XVIII shall be awarded in accordance with regulations 34 to contracts
in Schedule
XVIII.
Kuntratti li g]andhom b]ala l-g]an tag]hom servizzi
elenkati fi Skeda XIX g]andhom ji[u regolati biss bir-regolamenti 34 u
33. Kuntratti li g]andhom b]ala s-su[[ett prin`ipali tag]hom is-
servizzi elenkati kemm fi Skeda XVIII kif ukoll fi Skeda XIX
g]andhom jing]ataw skond ir-regolamenti 34 sa 59 fejn il-valur tas-
servizzi elenkati fi Skeda XVIII huwa aktar mill-valur tas-servizzi
elenkati fi Skeda XIX. F’ka\ijiet o]ra, il-kuntratti g]andhom jing]ataw
skond ir-regolamenti 34 u 43.
Kapitolu IV
Regoli spe`ifi`i li jirregolaw l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet
u d-dokumenti tal-kuntratt
34. (1)
Spe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i kif imfissra fil-punt 1 ta’
Skeda XXIII g]andhom ji[u dikjarati fid-dokumentazzjoni tal-kuntratt,
b]al avvi\i dwar kuntratt, dokumenti tal-kuntratt jew dokumenti
addizzjonali. Kull meta jkun possibbli dawn l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet
tekni`i g]andhom ji[u mfissra sabiex jitqiesu il-kriterji ta’ a``essibilità
g]al persuni b’di\abilitajiet jew disinn g]all-utenti kollha.
(2) L-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i g]andhom joffru a``ess
ugwali g]all-offerenti u m’g]andux ikollhom l-effett li jo]olqu ostakoli
mhux [ustifikati g]all-ftu] ta’ l-akkwisti pubbli`i g]all-kompetizzjoni.
(3) Ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]al regoli tekni`i nazzjonali
legalment vinkolanti, safejn huma kompatibbli mad-dritt Komunitarju,
l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i g]andhom ji[u formulati
(a)
permezz ta’ riferenza g]al spe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i
mfissra fi Skeda XXIII u, f’ordni skond il-preferenza, standards
nazzjonali li jittrasponu standards Ewropej, approvazzjonijiet
tekni`i Ewropej, spe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i komuni, standards
internazzjonali, sistemi o]ra tekni`i ta’ riferenza stabbiliti mill-
korpijiet ta’ standardizzazzjoni Ewropej jew - fejn dawn ma
je\istux - standards nazzjonali, approvazzjonijiet tekni`i
nazzjonali jew spe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i nazzjonali li g]andhom
x’jaqsmu mad-disinn, il-kalkolu u l-e\ekuzzjoni tax-xog]lijiet u
l-u\u tal-prodotti. Kull riferenza g]andu jkollha mag]ha l-kliem
"jew ekwivalenti"; jew
(b) f’termini ta’ twettiq jew ]ti[iet funzjonali; dawn ta’ l-
a]]ar jistg]u jinkludu karatteristi`i ambjentali. Madankollu,
dawn il-parametri g]andhom ikunu pre`i\i bi\\ejjed biex
jippermettu lill-offerenti li jistabbilixxu s-su[[ett prin`ipali tal-
kuntratt u jippermettu lill-entitajiet kontraenti li jag]tu l-kuntratt;
jew
(`)
f’termini ta’ twettiq jew ]ti[iet funzjonali kif
imsemmi fil-paragrafu (b), b’riferenza g]all-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet
imsemmija fil-paragrafu (a) b]ala mezz li bih titqies konformità
ma’ dan it-twettieq jew ]ti[iet funzjonali; jew
(d) billi jirreferu g]all-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet imsemmija fil-
paragrafu (a) g]al `erti karatteristi`i, u billi jirreferu g]at-twettiq
jew il-]ti[iet funzjonali msemmija fil-paragrafu (b) g]al
karatteristi`i o]ra.
(4) Meta entità kontraenti tag]\el li tirreferi g]all-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet imsemmija fis-subregolament (3)(a), ma tistax
tirrifjuta offerta fuq il-ba\i li l-prodotti u s-servizzi offruti mhumiex
konformi ma’ l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet li g]alihom tkun irreferiet, ladarba
l-offerent jag]ti prova fl-offerta tieg]u g]as-sodisfazzjoni ta’ l-entità
kontraenti, b’kull mezz xieraq, li s-soluzzjonijiet li hu jipproponi
jissodisfaw
f’mod
ekwivalenti
l-]ti[iet
imfissra
mill-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i. Mezz xieraq jista’ jkun kostitwit minn
dossier tekniku mill-fabbrikant jew rapport ta’ test minn korp
rikonoxxut.
(5) Meta entità kontraenti tag]mel l-g]a\la prevista fis-
subregolament (3) li tippreskrivi l-]ti[iet ta’ twettiq jew funzjonali, ma
tistax tirrifjuta offerta g]al prodotti, servizzi jew xog]lijiet li jkunu
konformi ma’ standard nazzjonali li jittrasponi standard Ewropew, ma’
approvazzjoni teknika Ewropea, spe`ifikazzjoni teknika komuni,
standard internazzjonali, jew sistema teknika ta’ riferenza stabbilita
minn korp ta’ standardizzazzjoni Ewropew, jekk dawk l-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet jindirizzaw il-]ti[iet ta’ twettieq jew funzjonali li
tkun ippreskriviet.
Fl-offerta tieg]u, l-offerent g]andu jag]ti prova g]as-
sodisfazzjon ta’ l-entità kontraenti u permezz ta’ kull mezz adatt li l-
prodott, is-servizz jew ix-xog]ol li huma konformi ma’ l-istandard
josservaw il-]ti[iet ta’ twettieq jew funzjonali ta’ l-entità kontraenti.
Mezz xieraq jista’ jkun kostitwit minn dossier tekniku mill-
fabbrikant jew rapport ta’ test minn korp rikonoxxut.
(6) Meta entitajiet kontraenti jippreskrivu karatteristi`i
ambjentali f’termini ta’ twettieq jew ]ti[iet funzjonali kif imsemmi fis-
subregolament (3)(b) jistg]u ju\aw l-ispe`ifikazzjonijet dettaljati, jew,
jekk ikun me]tie[, partijiet minnhom, kif imfisser bl-ekotikketti
Ewropej jew (multi-) nazzjonali, jew b’kull ekotikketta o]ra, sakemm
-
dawk l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet huma xierqa biex
jiddefinixxu l-karatteristi`i tal-provvisti jew is-servizzi li huma l-
g]an tal-kuntratt,
-
il-]ti[iet g]at-tikketta huma mfassla fuq il-ba\i ta’
tag]rif xjentifiku,
-
l-ekotikketti huma adottati permezz ta’ pro`edura li
fiha l-persuni kolla interessati, b]al ma huma korpijiet tal-gvern,
konsumaturi, fabbrikanti, distributuri u organizzazzjonijiet
ambjentali jistg]u jipparte`ipaw, u
-
huma a``essibbli g]all-partijiet interessati kollha.
Entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u jindikaw li l-prodotti u s-servizzi li
j[orru l-ekotikketta huma meqjusa li josservaw l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet
tekni`i preskritti fid-dokumenti tal-kuntratt; g]andhom ja``ettaw kull
mezz ie]or xieraq ta’ prova, b]al dossier tekniku mill-fabbrikant jew
rapport ta’ test minn korp rikonoxxut.
(7) "Korpijiet rikonoxxuti", fit-tifsira ta’ dan ir-regolament,
huma laboratorji ta’ test u kalibrazzjoni, u korpijiet ta’ `ertifikazzjoni u
spezzjoni li josservaw standards applikabbli Ewropej. Entitajiet
kontraenti g]andhom ja``ettaw `ertifikati minn korpijiet rikonoxxuti
stabbiliti fi Stati Membri o]ra.
(8) Sakemm mhux [ustifikat mis-su[[ett prin`ipali tal-kuntratt,
l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i ma g]andhomx jirreferu g]al g]amla jew
sors spe`ifiku, jew pro`ess partikolari, jew g]al trade marks, privattivi,
tipi jew ori[ini jew produzzjoni spe`ifika bl-effett li ji[u favoriti jew
eliminati `erti intrapri\i jew `erti prodotti. Din ir-riferenza g]andha ti[i
permessa, fuq ba\i e``ezzjonali, meta ma tkunx possibbli deskrizzjoni
pre`i\a u li tinftiehem bi\\ejjed tal-kontentut tas-su[[ett prin`ipali tal-
kuntratt skond is-subregolamenti (3) u (4); din ir-riferenza g]andu
jkollha mag]ha l-kliem "jew ekwivalenti".
35. (1) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom, meta ssirilhom talba, Komunikazzjoni
jag]mlu disponibbli g]al operaturi ekonomi`i interessati li jiksbu ta’
spe`ifikazzjo-
kuntratt l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i regolarment imsemmija fil- nijiet tekni`i.
kuntratti tag]hom ta’ provvista, xog]lijiet jew servizz, jew l-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i li huma g]andhom il-]sieb li japplikaw g]al
kuntratti koperti minn avvi\i perjodi`i indikattivi skond it-tifsira tar-
regolament 41(1).
(2) Meta l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i huma ba\ati fuq
dokumenti disponibbli lil operaturi ekonomi`i interessati, l-inklu\joni
ta’ riferenza g]al dawk id-dokumenti g]andha tkun suffi`jenti.
36. (1) Meta l-kriterju g]all-g]oti tal-kuntratt ikun wie]ed Elementi li
ta’ l-offerta l-aktar vanta[[u\a ekonomikament, entitajiet kontraenti jvarjaw.
jistg]u jqisu elementi li jvarjaw li jsiru minn offerent u li jil]qu l-]ti[iet
minimi spe`ifikati mill-entitajiet kontraenti. Entitajiet kontraenti
g]andhom jindikaw fl-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet jekk jawtorizzawx elementi
li jvarjaw jew le, u jekk iva, il-]ti[iet minimi li g]andhom jintla]qu
mill-elementi li jvarjaw u kull ]tie[a spe`ifika g]all-pre\entazzjoni
tag]hom.
(2) Fi pro`eduri g]all-g]oti ta’ kuntratti ta’ provvista jew
servizzi, entitajiet kontraenti li jkunu awtorizzaw elementi li jvarjaw
skond is-subregolament (1) ma jistg]ux jirrifjutaw element li jvarja fuq
il-ba\i wa]danija li jista’, jekk ikollu su``ess, iwassal jew g]al kuntratt
ta’ servizzi aktar milli kuntratt ta’ provvista jew g]al kuntratt ta’
provvista aktar milli kuntratt ta’ servizzi.
37. Fid-dokumenti tal-kuntratt, l-entità kontraenti tista’ tistaqsi
lill-offerent biex jindika fl-offerta tieg]u kull sehem tal-kuntratt li
g]andu l-]sieb li jghaddi b’appalt lil terzi u kull appaltatur propost. Din
l-indikazzjoni g]andha tkun ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]all-kwistjoni dwar
ir-responsabbiltà prin`ipali ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku.
38. Entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u jistabbilixxu kondizzjonijiet
spe`jali li g]andhom x’jaqsmu mat-twettieq ta’ kuntratt, sakemm dawn
huma kompatibbli mad-dritt Komunitarju u huma indikati fl-avvi\ u\at
b]ala mezz ta’ sej]a g]all-kompetizzjoni jew fl-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet. Il-
kondizzjonijiet li jirregolaw it-twettieq ta’ kuntratt jistg]u,
partikolarment, jirrigwardaw konsiderazzjonijiet so`jali u ambjentali.
39. (1) Entità kontraenti tista’ tiddikjara fid-dokumenti tal-
kuntratt il-korp jew korpijiet li minnhom kandidat jew offerent jistg]u
jiksbu t-tag]rif xieraq dwar l-obbligi li g]andhom x’jaqsmu ma’ taxxi,
protezzjoni ta’ l-ambjent, ma’ disposizzjonijiet ta’ protezzjoni u ma’
kondizzjonijiet ta’ xog]ol li huma fis-se]] f’Malta, u li g]andhom
ikunu applikabbli g]ax-xog]lijiet imwettqa fuq il-post jew g]as-
servizzi provduti matul it-twettieq tal-kuntratt.
(2) Entità kontraenti li tipprovdi t-tag]rif imsemmi fis-
subregolament (1) g]andha titlob lill-offerenti jew lill-kandidati fil-
pro`edura ta’ l-g]oti tal-kuntratt biex jindikaw li jkunu qiesu, waqt it-
tfassil ta’ l-offerta tag]hom, l-obbligi li g]andhom x’jaqsmu ma’
disposizzjonijiet ta’ protezzjoni ta’ impjieg u l-kondizzjonijiet ta’
xog]ol li huma fis-se]]. Id-disposizzjonijiet tas-subregolament (1)
ikunu ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]all-applikazzjoni tar-regolament 57.
Kapitolu V
Pro`eduri
40. (1) Meta jing]ataw kuntratti ta’ provvista, ta’ xog]lijiet
jew ta’ servizzi, entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom japplikaw il-pro`eduri
a[[ustati g]all-finijiet ta’ dawn ir-regolamenti.
(2) Entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u jag]\lu xi wa]da mill-pro`eduri
msemmija fir-regolament 1, fit tifsira ta’ "pro`eduri miftu]a, ristretti u
negozjati", sakemm, bla ]sara g]as-subregolament (3), tkun saret sej]a
g]al kompetizzjoni skond ir-regolament 42.
(3) Entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u ju\aw pro`edura ming]ajr sej]a
minn qabel g]al kompetizzjoni fil-ka\ijiet li [ejjin
(a)
fejn l-ebda offerta jew l-ebda offerta xierqa jew l-
ebda applikazzjoni ma tkun [iet sottomessa b’risposta g]al
pro`edura b’sej]a minn qabel g]all-kompetizzjoni, sakemm il-
kondizzjonijiet
inizjali
tal-kuntratt
m’humiex
mibdula
sostanzjalment;
(b) meta kuntratt huwa purament g]all-g]an ta’ ri`erka,
esperiment, studju jew \vilupp, u mhux g]all-g]an li ji\gura
profitt jew jirkupra spejje\ ta’ ri`erka u ta’ \vilupp, u sakemm l-
g]oti ta’ kuntratt b]al dak ma jistax jippre[udika l-g]otja
kompetittiva ta’ kuntratti sossegwenti li jfittxu, partikolarment,
dawk l-g]anijiet;
(`)
meta, g]al g]anijiet tekni`i jew artisti`i, jew g]al
ra[unijiet konnessi mal-protezzjoni ta’ drittijiet esklu\ivi, il-
kuntratt jista’ jitwettaq biss minn operatur ekonomiku partikolari;
(d) sakemm huwa strettament me]tie[ meta, g]al
ra[unijiet ta’ ur[enza estrema li sse]] min]abba fi [rajjiet mhux
previsti mill-entitajiet jiet kontraenti, l-limiti ta’ \mien preskritti
g]al pro`eduri miftu]a, pro`eduri ristretti u pro`eduri negozjati
b’sej]a minn qabel g]al kompetizzjoni ma jistg]ux ji[u segwiti;
(e)
fil-ka\ ta’ kuntratti ta’ provvista g]al kunsinni
addizzjonali mill-fornitur ori[inali li huma ma]suba jew b]ala
bdil parzjali ta’ provvisti jew stallazzjonijiet normali jew b]ala l-
estensjoni ta’ provvisti jew stallazzjonijiet e\istenti, fejn bidla fil-
fornitur tobbliga lill-entità kontraenti li takkwista materjal li
g]andu karatteristi`i tekni`i differenti li jkun jirri\ulta
f’inkompatibilità jew diffikultajiet tekni`i sproporzjonati fl-
operat u l-manutenzjoni;
(f)
g]al xog]lijiet jew servizzi addizzjonali li ma kienux
inklu\i fil-pro[ett mog]ti inizjalment jew fl-ewwel kuntratt
konklu\ imma, permezz ta’ `irkostanzi mhux prevvisti, saru
me]tie[a g]at-twettieq tal-kuntratt, bil-kondizzjoni li l-g]oti jsir
lill-kuntrattur jew lill-provditur ta’ servizzi li qed iwettaq il-
kuntratt ori[inali
-
meta dawn ix-xog]lijiet jew servizzi
addizzjonali ma jistg]ux ji[u separati teknikament jew
ekonomikament
mill-kuntratt
ewlieni
ming]ajr
inkonvenjenza kbira g]all-entitajiet kontraenti, jew
-
meta dawn ix-xog]lijiet jew servizzi
addizzjonali, g]alkemm separabbli mit-twettiq tal-kuntratt
ori[inali, huma strettament me]tie[a g]all-istadji aktar tard
tieg]u;
(g)
fil-ka\ ta’ kuntratti ta’ xog]lijiet, g]al xog]lijiet
[odda li jikkonsistu fir-ripetizzjoni ta’ xog]lijiet simili assenjati
lill-kuntrattur li lilu l-istess entitajiet kontraenti taw kuntratt aktar
kmieni, sakemm dawn ix-xog]lijiet huma konformi ma’ pro[ett
ba\iku li dwaru l-ewwel kuntratt ing]ata wara sej]a g]al
kompetizzjoni; malli l-ewwel pro[ett jin]are[ g]al offerta,
g]andu jing]ata avvi\ li din il-pro`edura tista’ ti[i adottata u l-
ispi\a totali stmata ta’ xog]lijiet sussegwenti g]andha titqies
mill-entitajiet kontraenti meta japplikaw id-disposizzjonijiet tar-
regolamenti 16 u 17;
(h) g]al provvisti kwotati u mixtrija f’suq ta’ l-o[[etti
g]all-u\u fid-dar;
(i)
g]al kuntratti li g]andhom jing]ataw abba\i ta’
ftehim qafas, sakemm ti[i osservata l-kondizzjoni msemmija fir-
regolament 14(2);
(j)
g]al xiri bi prezz ir]is ]afna, fejn huwa possibbli li
jin[abru provvisti billi jittie]ed vanta[[ minn opportunità
partikolarment vanta[[u\a disponibbli g]al \mien qasir ]afna bi
suq;
(k) g]al
xiri
ta’
provvisti
b’kondizzjonijiet
partikolarment vanta[[u\i jew minn fornitur li definittivament
qed ixolji l-attivitajiet tieg]u ta’ kummer` jew mir-ri`evituri jew
mil-likwidaturi ta’ falliment, arran[ament ma’ kredituri jew
pro`edura simili skond il-li[ijiet ta’ Malta;
(l)
fejn il-kuntratt ta’ servizzi kon`ernat huwa parti minn
azzjoni sussegwenti g]al kompetizzjoni dwar disinn organizzat
skond id-disposizzjonijiet ta’ dawn ir-regolamenti u ser jing]ata,
skond ir-regoli rilevanti, lir-rebbie] jew lil wie]ed mir-rebbie]a
ta’ dik il-kompetizzjoni; fil-ka\ imsemmi l-a]]ar, ir-rebbie]a
kollha g]andhom ji[u mistiedna biex jipparte`ipaw fin-negozjati.
Kapitolu VI
Regoli dwar il-pubblikazzjoni u t-trasparenza
SEZZJONI 1
Pubblikazzjoni ta’ avvi\i
41. (1) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jg]arrfu, mill-inqas Avvi\i
darba fis-sena, permezz ta’ avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv kif imsemmi fl- indikattivi
perjodi`i u
Iskeda XV, pubblikat mill-Kummissjoni jew minnhom infushom jew avvi\i dwar l-
e\istenza ta’
mid-Dipartiment tal-Kuntratti fuq il-"profil tax-xerrej", tag]hom kif sistema ta’
kwalifika.
deskritt fil-punt 2(b) ta’ l-Iskeda XXII
(a)
fejn jirrigwarda provvisti, l-valur totali stmat tal-
kuntratti jew ftehim qafas skond i\-\ona tal-prodott li g]andhom
il-]sieb li jag]tu matul it-tnax-il xahar li jkun imiss, fejn il-valur
totali stmat, meta jitqiesu d-disposizzjonijiet tar-regolamenti 16 u
17, huwa ugwali g]al jew aktar minn Lm300,000. I\-\ona tal-
prodott g]andha ti[i stabbilita mill-entitajiet kontraenti
b’riferenza g]an-nomenklatura CPV;
(b) fejn jirrigwarda servizzi, l-valur totali stmat tal-
kuntratti jew il-ftehim qafas f’kull kategorija ta’ servizzi elenkata
fi Skeda XVIII li g]andhom il-]sieb li jag]tu matul it-tnax-il
xahar li jkun imiss, fejn dan il-valur totali stmat, meta jitqiesu d-
disposizzjonijiet tar-regolamenti 16 u 17, huwa ugwali g]al jew
aktar minn Lm300,000;
(`)
fejn jirrigwarda xog]lijiet, il-karatteristi`i essenzjali
tal-kuntratti tax-xog]lijiet jew il-ftehim qafas li g]andhom il-
]sieb li jag]tu matul it-tnax-il xahar li jkun imiss, li l-valur stmat
tag]hom huwa ugwali g]al jew aktar mill-livell stabbilit
spe`ifikat fir-regolament 16, waqt li jitqiesu d-disposizzjonijiet
tar-regolament 17.
L-avvi\i msemmija fil-paragrafi (a) u (b) g]andhom jintbag]tu
lill-Kummissjoni u lid-Direttur jew ji[u pubblikati fil-profil tax-xerrej
kemm jista’ jkun malajr wara l-bidu tas-sena ta’ l-estimi.
L-avvi\ imsemmi fil-paragrafu (`) g]andu jintbag]at lill-
Kummissjoni u lid-Direttur jew ji[i pubblikat fil-profil tax-xerrej
kemm jista’ jkun malajr wara d-de`i\joni li tapprova l-ippjanar tal-
kuntratti tax-xog]lijiet jew il-ftehim qafas li l-entitajiet kontraenti
g]andhom il-]sieb li jag]tu.
Entitajiet kontraenti li jippubblikaw avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv
dwar il-profili tax-xerrej tag]hom g]andhom jittrasmettu lill-
Kummissjoni u lid-Direttur, elettronikament, avvi\ tal-pubblikazzjoni
ta’ l-avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv dwar il-profil tax-xerrej, skond il-format
u l-pro`eduri g]at-trasmissjoni elettronika ta’ avvi\i indikati fil-punt 3
ta’ Skeda XXII.
Il-pubblikazzjoni ta’ l-avvi\i msemmija fil-paragrafi (a), (b) u (`)
g]andha tkun obbligatorja fil-ka\ biss meta l-entitàjiet kontraenti
jag]\lu li jnaqqsu l-limiti ta\-\mien biex jir`ievu l-offerti kif stabbilit
fir-regolament 45(4).
Dan il-paragrafu ma g]andux japplika g]al pro`eduri ming]ajr
sej]a minn qabel g]al kompetizzjoni.
(2) Entitàjiet kontraenti jistg]u, b’mod partikolari, jippubblikaw
jew jirran[aw biex il-Kummissjoni u d-Direttur jippubblikaw avvi\i
perjodi`i indikattivi li g]andhom x’jaqsmu ma’ pro[etti kbar ming]ajr
ma jirrepetu tag]rif inklu\ minn qabel f’avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv,
sakemm ji[i muri b’mod `ar li dawn l-avvi\i huma addizzjonali.
(3) Meta entitajiet kontraenti jag]\lu li jwaqqfu sistema ta’
kwalifika skond ir-regolament 53, is-sistema g]andha tkun is-su[[ett
ta’ avvi\ kif imsemmi fi Skeda XIV, li jindika l-g]an tas-sistema ta’
kwalifika u kif jista’ jsir a``ess g]ar-regoli li jirrigwardaw l-operat
tieg]u. Meta s-sistema hija ta’ tul ta’ \mien ta’ aktar minn tliet snin, l-
avvi\ g]andu ji[i pubblikat kull sena. Meta s-sistema hija ta’ tul ta’
\mien iqsar, ikun bi\\ejjed avvi\ inizjali.
42. (1) Fil-ka\ ta’ kuntratti ta’ provvista, xog]lijiet jew
servizzi, is-sej]a g]all-kompetizzjoni tista’ ssir
(a)
permezz ta’ avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv kif imsemmi fi
Skeda XV; jew
(b) permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar l-e\istenza ta’ sistema ta’
kwalifika kif imsemmi fi Skeda XIV; jew
(`)
permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar kuntratt kif imsemmi fi Skeda
XIII, Sezzjonijiet A, B jew ~.
(2) Fil-ka\ ta’ sistemi dinami`i ta’ xiri, is-sej]a g]al
kompetizzjoni tas-sistema g]andha tkun permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar
kuntratt kif imsemmi fis-subregolament (1)(`), waqt li sej]iet ta’
kompetizzjoni g]al kuntratti ba\ati fuq dawn is-sistemi g]andhom isiru
permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar kuntratt simplifikat kif imsemmi fi Skeda XIII,
Sezzjoni D.
(3) Meta sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni ssir permezz ta’ avvi\
perjodiku indikattiv, l-avvi\ g]andu
(a)
jirreferi spe`ifikament g]all-provvisti, xog]lijiet jew
servizzi li ser ikunu s-su[[ett tal-kuntratt li ser jing]ata;
(b) jindika li l-kuntratt ser jing]ata permezz ta’ pro`edura
ristretta jew negozjata ming]ajr aktar pubblikazzjoni ta’ avvi\ ta’
sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni u jistieden lil operaturi ekonomi`i
interessati li jesprimu l-interess tag]hom bil-miktub; u
(`)
jkun [ie pubblikat skond Skeda XXII mhux aktar
minn tnax-il xahar qabel id-data li fiha tintbag]at l-istedina
msemmija fir-regolament 47(5). Barra minn dan, l-entità
kontraenti g]andha tosserva l-limiti ta’ \mien preskritti fir-
regolament 45.
43. (1) Entitajiet kontraenti li jkunu taw kuntratt jew ftehim Avvi\i dwar l-
qafas g]andhom, fi \mien xahrejn mill-g]oti tal-kuntratt jew tal-ftehim g]oti
kuntratti.
qafas, jibg]atu avvi\ ta’ g]oti ta’ kuntratt kif imsemmi fi Skeda XVII.
Fil-ka\ ta’ kuntratti mog]tija ta]t ftehim qafas skond it-tifsira tar-
regolament 14(2), l-entitàjiet kontraenti ma jkunux marbuta li jibag]tu
avvi\ tar-ri\ultati tal-pro`edura ta’ l-g]oti g]al kull kuntratt ibba\at fuq
dak il-ftehim.
Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jibg]atu avvi\ ta’ g]oti ta’
kuntratt ibba\at fuq sistema dinamika ta’ xiri fi \mien xahrejn wara l-
g]oti ta’ kull kuntratt. Jistg]u, madankollu, jirraggruppaw dawn l-
avvi\i fuq ba\i ta’ kull tliet xhur. F’dak il-ka\, g]andhom jibag]tu l-
avvi\i raggruppati fi \mien xahrejn wara tmiem kull tliet xhur.
(2) It-tag]rif mog]ti skond Skeda XVII u ma]sub g]al
pubblikazzjoni g]andu ji[i ppubblikat skond Skeda XXII. F’dan ir-
rigward, il-Kummissjoni u d-Direttur g]andhom jirrispettaw kull aspett
kummer`jali sensittiv li l-entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u juru meta jibag]tu
dan it-tag]rif, dwar l-g]add ta’ offerti ri`evuti, l-identità ta’ operaturi
ekonomi`i, jew prezzijiet.
(3) Meta entitajiet kontraenti jag]tu kuntratt ta’ servizzi ta’
ri`erka u \vilupp ("kuntratt R & D") permezz ta’ pro`edura ming]ajr
sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni skond ir-regolament 40(3)(b), jistg]u
jillimitaw g]ar-riferenza "servizzi ta’ ri`erka u \vilupp" it-tag]rif li
g]andu jing]ata skond Skeda XVII dwar in-natura u l-kwantità tas-
servizzi mog]tija.
Meta entitajiet kontraenti jag]tu kuntratt R & D li ma jistax
jing]ata permezz ta’ pro`edura ming]ajr sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni
skond ir-regolament 40(3)(b), huma jistg]u, g]al ra[unijiet ta’
kunfidenzjalità kummer`jali, jillimitaw it-tag]rif li g]andu jing]ata
skond Skeda XVII dwar in-natura u l-kwantità tas-servizzi mog]tija.
F’dawn il-ka\ijiet, entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom ji\guraw li kull
tag]rif pubblikat skond dan il-paragrafu m’huwiex inqas dettaljat minn
dak li jinsab fl-avvi\ tas-sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni pubblikat skond ir-
regolament 42(1).
Jekk ju\aw sistema ta’ kwalifika, entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom
ji\guraw f’dawn il-ka\ijiet li dan it-tag]rif m’huwiex inqas dettaljat
mill-kategorija msemmija fil-lista ta’ provdituri kwalifikati ta’ servizzi
mfassla skond ir-regolament 53(7).
(4) Fil-ka\ ta’ kuntratti mog]tija g]al servizzi elenkati fi Skeda
XIX, l-entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jindikaw fl-avvi\ jekk jaqblux
mal-pubblikazzjoni.
(5) Tag]rif mog]ti skond Skeda XVII u mmarkat b]ala li mhux
ma]sub g]all-pubblikazzjoni g]andu ji[i pubblikat biss fil-forma
simplifikata u skond Skeda XXII g]al g]anijiet statisti`i.
(1) L-avvi\i g]andhom jinkludu t-tag]rif imsemmi fi
Skedi XIII, XIV, XV, XVI u XVII u, fejn ikun adatt, kull tag]rif ie]or li
jitqies ta’ u\u mill-entità kontraenti fil-format ta’ formoli standard
adottati mill-Kummissjoni.
(2) L-avvi\i mibg]uta minn entitajiet kontraenti lill-
Kummissjoni u lid-Direttur g]andhom jintbag]tu jew permezz ta’
mezzi elettroni`i skond il-format u l-pro`eduri g]at-trasmissjoni
indikati fil-punt 3 ta’ Skeda XXII, jew permezz ta’ mezzi o]ra.
L-avvi\i msemmija fir-regolamenti 41, 42 u 43 g]andhom ji[u
ppubblikati skond il-karatteristi`i tekni`i g]all-pubblikazzjoni stabbiliti
fil-punt 1(a) u (b) ta’ Skeda XXII.
(3) Avvi\i mfassla u trasmessi permezz ta’ mezzi elettroni`i
skond il-format u l-pro`eduri g]at-trasmissjoni indikati fil-punt 3 ta’ l-
Iskeda XXII, g]andhom ji[u pubblikati mhux aktar tard minn ]amest
ijiem wara li jkunu ntbag]tu.
Avvi\i li m’humiex trasmessi permezz ta’ mezzi elettroni`i skond
il-format u l-pro`eduri g]at-trasmissjoni indikati fil-punt 3 ta’ Skeda
XXII g]andhom ji[u pubblikati mhux aktar tard minn tnax-il jum wara
li jkunu ntbag]tu. Madankollu, f’ka\ijiet e``ezzjonali, l-avvi\i dwar
kuntratt imsemmija fir-regolament 42(1)(`) g]andhom ji[u ppubblikati
fi \mien ]amest ijiem b]ala risposta g]al talba mill-entità kontraenti,
sakemm l-avvi\ ikun intbag]at permezz ta’ fax.
(4) Avvi\i dwar kuntratt g]andhom ji[u pubblikati fl-intier
tag]hom f’lingwa uffi`jali tal-Komunità mag]\ula mill-entità
kontraenti, b’din il-versjoni ori[inali tal-lingwa tikkostitwixxi t-test
awtentiku wa]dieni. Sommarju ta’ l-elementi importanti ta’ kull avvi\
g]andu ji[i pubblikat fil-lingwi uffi`jali l-o]ra. L-ispejje\ tal-
pubblikazzjoni ta’ l-avvi\i mill-Kummissjoni g]andhom jit]allsu mill-
Komunità.
(5) L-avvi\i u l-kontenut tag]hom ma jistg]ux ji[u pubblikati
fuq livell nazzjonali qabel id-data li fiha jintbag]tu lill-Kummissjoni.
L-avvi\i pubblikati fuq livell nazzjonali m’g]andux ikun fihom tag]rif
ie]or ]lief dak li jinsab fl-avvi\i mibg]uta lill-Kummissjoni jew
pubblikati fuq profil tax-xerrej skond l-ewwel subparagrafu tar-
regolament 41(1), i\da g]andhom isemmu d-data ta’ meta jintbag]at l-
avvi\ lill-Kummissjoni jew tal-pubblikazzjoni tieg]u fuq il-profil tax-
xerrej. Avvi\i perjodi`i indikattivi ma jistg]ux ji[u pubblikati fuq profil
tax-xerrej qabel ma jintbag]at lill-Kummissjoni l-avvi\ tal-
pubblikazzjoni tag]hom f’dik il-forma; g]andhom isemmu d-data ta’
meta jintbag]tu.
(6) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom ji\guraw li huma kapa`i li
jipprovdu prova tad-dati li fihom jintbag]tu l-avvi\i.
(7) Il-Kummissjoni g]andha tag]ti lill-entità kontraenti
konferma tal-pubblikazzjoni tat-tag]rif mibg]ut, waqt li jsemmu d-data
ta’ dik il-pubblikazzjoni. Dik il-konferma g]andha tikkostitwixxi prova
ta’ pubblikazzjoni.
(8) Entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u jippubblikaw, skond is-
subregolamenmt (1) sa (7), avvi\i dwar kuntratt li m’humiex so[[etti
g]all-]ti[iet ta’ pubblikazzjoni preskritti b’dawn ir-regolamenti.
SEZZJONI 2
Limiti ta’ \mien
(1) Meta jiffissaw il-limiti ta’ \mien g]al talbiet g]al Limiti ta’ \mien
parte`ipazzjoni u biex jir`ievu offerti, entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom biex
ri`evuti talbiet
iqisu b’mod partikolari l-kumplessità tal-kuntratt u \-\mien me]tie[ g]all-
parte`ipazzjoni
biex jitfasslu l-offerti, ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]all-limiti ta’ \mien u biex ji[u
ri`evuti offerti.
minimi stabbiliti f’dan ir-regolament.
(2) Fil-ka\ ta’ pro`eduri miftu]a, l-limitu ta’ \mien minimu
biex ji[u ri`evuti l-offerti g]andu jkun ta’ tnejn u ]amsin [urnata mid-
data li fiha ntbag]at l-avvi\ dwar kuntratt.
(3) Fi pro`eduri ristretti u pro`eduri negozjati b’sej]a minn
qabel g]al kompetizzjoni, g]andhom japplikaw l-arran[amenti li
[ejjin
(a)
il-limitu ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti talbiet g]al
parte`ipazzjoni, b]ala risposta g]al avvi\ pubblikat skond ir-
regolament 42(1)(`), jew b]ala risposta g]al stedina mill-
entitajiet kontattanti skond ir-regolament 47(5), g]andu, b]ala
regola [enerali, ji[i stabbilit mhux inqas minn sebg]a u tletin
[urnata mid-data li fiha l-avvi\ jew l-istedina tkun intbag]tet u
ma jistax fl-ebda ka\ ikun inqas minn tnejn u g]oxrin [urnata
jekk l-avvi\ jintbag]at g]al pubblikazzjoni b’mezzi o]ra ]lief
mezzi elettroni`i jew fax, u mhux inqas minn ]mistax-il [urnata
jekk l-avvi\ huwa trasmess b’dawn il-mezzi;
(b) il-limitu ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti jista’ ji[i
stabbilit permezz ta’ qbil re`iproku bejn l-entità kontraenti u l-
kandidati mag]\ula, sakemm il-kandidati l-o]ra jkollhom l-istess
\mien biex i]ejju u jag]mlu l-offerti tag]hom;
(`)
fejn m’huwiex possibbli li jintla]aq ftehim dwar il-
limitu ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti, l-entità kontraenti
g]andha tistabbilixxi limitu ta’ \mien li g]andu, b]ala regola
[enerali, jkun mill-inqas erbg]a u g]oxrin [urnata u ma g]andux
fl-ebda ka\ ikun inqas minn ghaxart ijiem mid-data ta’ l-istedina
g]all-offerti.
(4) Jekk l-entitajiet kontraenti jkunu ppubblikaw avvi\
perjodiku indikattiv kif imsemmi fir-regolament 41(1) skond l-Iskeda
XXII, il-limitu ta’ \mien minimu biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti fi pro`eduri
miftu]a g]andu, b]ala regola [enerali, ma jkunx inqas minn sitta u
tletin [urnata, i\da ma g]andux fl-ebda ka\ ikun inqas minn tnejn u
g]oxrin [urnata mid-data li fiha ntbag]at l-avvi\. Dawn il-limiti ta’
\mien imnaqqsa huma permessi, sakemm l-avvi\ perjodiku indikattiv
ikun fih, b’\ieda mat-tag]rif me]tie[ bi Skeda XV, Taqsima I, it-tag]rif
kollu me]tie[ bi Skeda XV, Taqsima II, safejn it-tag]rif imsemmi l-
a]]ar huwa disponibbli fil-]in li l-avvi\ huwa pubblikat, u li l-avvi\
ikun intbag]at g]al pubblikazzjoni bejn tnejn u ]amsin [urnata u tnax-
il xahar qabel id-data li fiha jintbag]at l-avvi\ dwar kuntratt imsemmi
fir-regolament 42(1)(`).
(5) Meta l-avvi\i huma mfassla u trasmessi permezz ta’ mezzi
elettroni`i skona il-format u l-pro`eduri g]at-trasmissjoni indikati fil-
punt 3 ta’ Skeda XXII il-limiti ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti talbiet g]al
parte`ipazzjoni fi pro`eduri ristretti u negozjati, u biex ji[u ri`evuti
offerti fi pro`eduri miftu]a, jistg]u jitnaqqsu b’sebat ijiem.
(6) }lief fil-ka\ ta’ limitu ta’ \mien stabbilit bi qbil re`iproku
skond is-subregolament (3)(b), il-limiti ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti
offerti fi pro`eduri miftu]a, ristretti u negozjati jistg]u jitnaqqsu
b’]amest ijiem o]ra meta l-entità kontraenti toffri a``ess mhux ristrett
u dirett s]i] g]ad-dokumenti tal-kuntratt u kull dokument
supplimentari permezz ta’ mezzi elettroni`i mid-data li fiha l-avvi\ u\at
b]ala mezz ta’ sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni huwa pubblikat, skond Skeda
XXII. L-avvi\ g]andu jispe`ifika l-indirizz ta’ l-internet li minnu din
id-dokumentazzjoni hija a``essibbli.
(7) Fi pro`eduri miftu]a, l-effett kumulattiv tat-tnaqqis preskritt
fis-subregolamenti (4), (5) u (6) ma jistax fl-ebda ka\ jirrizulta f’limitu
ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti ta’ inqas minn ]mistax-il [urnata
mid-data li fiha jintbag]at l-avvi\ dwar kuntratt
I\da, jekk l-avvi\ dwar kuntratt m’huwiex trasmess permezz
tal-fax jew mezzi elettroni`i, l-effett kumulattiv tat-tnaqqis preskritt fis-
subregolamenti (4), (5) u (6) ma jistax fl-ebda ka\ jirrizulta f’limitu ta’
\miem biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti fi pro`edura miftu]a ta’ inqas minn
tnejn u g]oxrin [urnata mid-data li fiha [ie trasmess l-avvi\ dwar
kuntratt.
(8) (a)
L-effett kumulattiv tat-tnaqqis preskritt fis-
subregolamenti (4), (5) u (6) ma jistax fl-ebda ka\ jirrizulta f’limitu ta’
\mien biex ji[u ri`evuti talbiet g]al parte`ipazzjoni, b]ala risposta g]al
avvi\ pubblikat skond ir-regolament 42(1)(`), jew b]ala risposta g]al
stedina mill-entitajiet kontraenti skond ir-regolament 47(5), ta’ inqas
minn ]mistax-il [urnata mid-data li fiha jintbag]at l-avvi\ dwar
kuntratt jew l-istedina.
(b) Fi pro`eduri ristretti u negozjati, l-effett kumulattiv
tat-tnaqqis preskritt fis-subregolamenti (4), (5) u (6) ma jistax, fl-ebda
ka\, ]lief dak ta’ limitu ta’ \mien stabbilit bi qbil re`iproku skond is-
subregolament (3)(b), jirrizulta f’limitu ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti
offerti ta’ inqas minn ghaxart ijiem mid-data li fiha tintbag]at l-istedina
g]all-offerti.
(9) Jekk, g]al xi ra[uni tkun xi tkun, id-dokumenti tal-kuntratt u
d-dokumenti ta’ appo[[ jew tag]rif addizzjonali, g]alkemm mitluba
f’waqthom, ikunu g]adhom ma ing]atawx fil-limiti ta’ \mien stabbiliti
fir-regolamenti 46 u 47, jew fejn ikunu jistg]u jsiru offerti biss wara
vista fil-post jew wara spezzjoni fuq il-post tad-dokumenti li jsostnu d-
dokumenti tal-kuntratt, il-limiti ta’ \mien biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti
g]andhom ji[u debitament esti\i, ]lief fil-ka\ ta’ limitu ta’ \mien
stabbilit bi qbil re`iproku skond is-subregolament (3)(b), sabiex l-
operaturi ekonomi`i kollha kon`ernati jistg]u jkunu jafu bit-tag]rif
kollu me]tie[ g]at-t]ejjija ta’ offerta.
(10) Tabella sommarja tal-limiti ta’ \mien preskritti f’dan ir-
regolament tinsab fi Skeda XXIV.
Fi pro`eduri miftu]a, fejn entitajiet kontraenti ma joffrux
a``ess mhux ristrett u dirett s]i] permezz ta’ mezzi elettroni`i skond ir-
regolament 45(6) g]all-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u kull dokument ta’
sostenn, l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u d-dokumenti ta’ sostenn g]andhom
jintbag]tu lill-operaturi ekonomi`i fi \mien sitt ijiem minn meta tkun
[iet ri`evuta t-talba, sakemm it-talba tkun saret f’waqtha qabel il-limitu
ta’ \mien biex isiru l-offerti
Sakemm ikun [ie mitlub f’waqtu, tag]rif addizzjonali li
g]andu x’jaqsam ma’ l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet g]andu jing]ata mill-
entitajiet kontraenti jew dipartimenti kompetenti mhux aktar tard minn
sitt ijiem qabel il-limitu ta’ \mien stabbilit biex ji[u ri`evuti l-offerti.
(1) Fi pro`eduri ristretti u pro`eduri negozjati, entitajiet
kontraenti g]andhom fl-istess ]in u bil-miktub jistiednu lill-kandidati
mag]\ula biex jag]mlu l-offerti tag]hom jew biex jinnegozjaw. L-
istedina lill-kandidati g]andha tinkludi jew
-
kopja ta’ l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u kull dokument ta’
sostenn, jew
-
riferenza g]all-a``ess ta’ l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u d-
dokumenti ta’ sostenn indikati fl-ewwel in`i\, meta jsiru
direttament disponibbli permezz ta’ mezzi elettroni`i skond ir-
regolament 45(6).
(2) Meta l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u, jew kull dokument ta’ sostenn
jin\ammu minn entità o]ra li ma tkunx l-entità kontraenti responsabbli
g]all-pro`edura ta’ l-g]oti, l-istedina g]andha tiddikjara l-indirizz
minn fejn dawk l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u dokumenti jistg]u jintalbu u,
jekk ikun adatt, id-data ta’ g]eluq g]at-talba ta’ dawn id-dokumenti, is-
somma pagabbli biex dawn jinkisbu u kull pro`edura ta’ ]las. Id-
dipartiment kompetenti g]andu jibg]at dik id-dokumentazzjoni lill-
operatur ekonomiku minnufih malli jir`ievi t-talba.
(3) It-tag]rif addizzjonali dwar l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet jew id-
dokumenti ta’ sostenn g]andhom jintbag]tu lill-entità kontraenti jew
id-dipartiment kompetenti mhux inqas minn sitt ijiem qabel id-data
finali stabbilita biex ji[u ri`evuti l-offerti, sakemm dawn jintalbu
f’waqthom.
(4) B’\ieda ma’ dan, l-istedina g]andu jkun fiha mill-inqas dan
li [ej
(a)
fejn xieraq, il-limitu ta’ \mien biex jintalbu
dokumenti addizzjonali, kif ukoll l-ammont u t-termini ta’ ]las ta’
kull somma li g]andha tit]allas g]al dawn id-dokumenti;
(b) id-data finali biex ji[u ri`evuti l-offerti, l-indirizz fejn
iridu jintbag]tu, u l-lingwa jew lingwi li fihom g]andhom
jit]ejjew;
(`)
riferenza g]al kull avvi\ ta’ kuntratt pubblikat;
(d)
indikazzjoni ta’ kull dokument li g]andu ji[i
mehmu\;
(e)
il-kriterji g]all-g]oti tal-kuntratt, fejn m’humiex
indikati fl-avvi\ dwar l-e\istenza ta’ sistema ta’ kwalifika w\ata
b]ala mezz ta’ sej]a g]all-kompetizzjoni;
(f)
l-importanza relattiva tal-kriterji ta’ l-g]oti tal-
kuntratt jew, fejn ikun xieraq, l-ordni ta’ importanza ta’ dawn il-
kriterji, jekk dan it-tag]rif ma jing]atax fl-avvi\ dwar kuntratt, l-
avvi\ dwar l-e\istenza ta’ sistema ta’ kwalifika jew l-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet.
(5) Meta sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni ssir permezz ta’ avvi\
perjodiku indikattiv, l-entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom sussegwentement
jistiednu lill-kandidati kollha biex jikkonfermaw l-interess tag]hom fuq
il-ba\i ta’ tag]rif dettaljat dwar il-kuntratt kon`ernat qabel il-bidu tal-
g]a\la ta’ offerenti jew parte`ipanti f’negozjati. Din l-istedina g]andu
jkun fiha mill-inqas it-tag]rif li [ej
(a)
in-natura u l-kwantità, inklu\i l-g]a\liet kollha
rigward kuntratti kumplimentari u, jekk ikun possibbli, il-]in
stmat disponibbli biex ji[u e\er`itati dawn l-g]a\liet g]al
kuntratti li ji[[eddu, n-natura u l-kwantità u, jekk ikun possibbli,
d-dati ta’ pubblikazzjoni stmati ta’ avvi\i fil-futur ta’
kompetizzjoni g]al xog]lijiet, provvisti jew servizzi li ser
jitqieg]du g]al offerti;
(b)
it-tip ta’ pro`edura: ristretta jew negozjata;
(`)
fejn ikun xieraq, id-data li fiha l-kunsinna ta’
provvisti jew l-e\ekuzzjoni ta’ xog]lijiet jew servizzi tibda jew
tispi``a;
(d) l-indirizz u d-data ta’ g]eluq g]as-sottomissjoni ta’
talbiet g]al dokumenti ta’ offerti u l-lingwa jew lingwi li fihom
g]andhom jitfasslu;
(e)
l-indirizz ta’ l-entità li ser tag]ti l-kuntratt u t-tag]rif
me]tie[ g]all-ksib ta’ l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet u dokumenti o]ra;
(f)
kondizzjonijiet
ekonomi`i
u
tekni`i,
garanziji
finanzjarji u tag]rif me]tie[ minn operaturi ekonomi`i;
(g) l-ammont u l-pro`eduri ta’ ]las g]al kull somma
pagabbli g]all-ksib ta’ dokumenti ta’ l-offerti;
(h) il-forma tal-kuntratt li huwa s-su[[ett ta’ l-istediniet
g]all-offerti: xiri, kiri b’self, kiri jew hire purchase, jew xi ta]lita
ta’ dawn; u
(i)
il-kriterji ta’ l-g]oti tal-kuntratt u l-importanza
tag]hom jew, fejn ikun xieraq, l-ordni ta’ importanza ta’ dawn il-
kriterji, jekk dan it-tag]rif ma jing]atax fl-avvi\ indikattiv jew fl-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet jew fl-istedina g]all-offerti jew g]an-
negozjar.
SEZZJONI 3
Komunikazzjoni u tag]rif
(1) L-iskambju kollu ta’ komunikazzjoni u tag]rif
msemmi f’dan it-Titolu jista’ jitwettaq bil-posta, bil-fax jew b’mezzi
elettroni`i skond is-subregolamenti (4) u (5), bit-telefon fil-ka\ijiet u `-
`irkostanzi msemmija fis-subregolament (6), jew b’ta]lita ta’ dawn il-
mezzi, skond l-g]a\la ta’ l-entità kontraenti.
(2) Il-mezzi ta’ komunikazzjoni mag]\ula g]andhom ikunu
[eneralment disponibbli u b’hekk ma jirristrin[ux l-a``ess ta’ l-
operaturi ekonomi`i g]all-pro`edura ta’ l-g]oti ta’ l-offerti.
(3) Il-komunikazzjoni u l-iskambju u r-re[istrazzjoni ta’ tag]rif
g]andhom jitwettqu b’dak il-mod li ji\gura li ji[u pre\ervati l-integrità
ta’ l-informazzjoni u l-kunfidenzjalità ta’ offerti u talbiet g]all-
parte`ipazzjoni, u li l-entitajiet kontraenti je\aminaw il-kontenut ta’
offerti u talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni biss wara li jiskadi l-limitu ta\-
\mien stabbilit biex dawn isiru.
(4) L-g]odda li g]andha tintu\a g]all-komunikazzjoni permezz
ta’ mezzi elettroni`i, kif ukoll il-karatteristi`i tekni`i tag]hom,
g]andhom ikunu mhux diskriminatorji, [eneralment disponibbli u
interoperabbli mal-prodotti tat-tag]rif u tat-teknolo[ija ta’
komunikazzjoni fl-u\u [enerali.
(5) Ir-regoli li [ejjin huma applikabbli g]al tag]mir g]at-
trasmissjoni elettronika u biex ji[u ri`evuti offerti u g]al tag]mir biex
ji[i ri`evuti elettronikament talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni
(a)
tag]rif rigward l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet me]tie[a g]as-
sottomissjoni elettronika ta’ offerti u talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni,
inklu\ il-qlib ta’ data f’kodi`i, g]andu jkun disponibbli lill-
partijiet interessati. Barra minn dan, it-tag]mir biex ji[u ri`evuti
elettronikament offerti u talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni g]andu
jkun konformi mal-]ti[iet ta’ Skeda XXVI;
(b) l-entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u, skond l-Artikolu 5 tad-
Direttiva 1999/93/KE, je]tie[u li l-offerti elettroni`i jkollhom
mag]hom firma elettronika avanzata skond il-paragrafu 1 tieg]u;
(`)
l-Istati Membri jistg]u jintrodu`u jew i\ommu skemi
volontarji ta’ akkreditazzjoni li jimmiraw g]al livelli mtejba ta’
g]oti ta’ servizzi ta’ `ertifikazzjoni g]al dak it-tag]mir;
(d) offerenti jew kandidati g]andhom jintrabtu li jag]mlu
disponibbli, qabel l-iskadenza tal-limitu ta\-\mien preskritt biex
isiru offerti jew talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni, d-dokumenti, i`-
`ertifikati u d-dikjarazzjonijiet imsemmija fir-regolamenti 52(2),
52(3), 53 u 54 jekk dawn ma je\istux fil-format elettroniku.
(6) Ir-regoli li [ejjin g]andhom japplikaw g]at-trasmissjoni ta’
talbiet g]all-parte`ipazzjoni
(a)
talbiet g]al parte`ipazzjoni fi pro`eduri g]all-g]oti
ta’ kuntratti jistg]u jsiru bil-miktub jew bit-telefon;
(b) meta talbiet g]al parte`ipazzjoni jsiru bit-telefon,
konferma bil-miktub g]andha tintbag]at qabel ma jiskadi l-limitu
ta’ \mien stabbilit biex dawn ji[u ri`evuti;
(`)
entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u je]tie[u li talbiet g]al
parte`ipazzjoni li jsiru bil-fax g]andhom ji[u konfermati bil-
posta jew b’mezzi elettroni`i, meta dan ikun me]tie[ g]all-
finijiet ta’ prova legali. Kull ]tie[a b]al din, flimkien mal-limitu
ta’ \mien biex tintbag]at konferma bil-posta jew b’mezzi
elettroni`i, g]andha ti[i dikjarata mill-entità kontraenti fl-avvi\
u\at b]ala mezz ta’ sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni jew fl-istedina
msemmija fir-regolament 47(5).
(1) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom kemm jista’ jkun Tag]rif g]al
malajr jg]arrfu lill-operaturi ekonomi`i involuti dwar id-de`i\jonijiet li applikanti
kwalifika,
jintla]qu rigward il-konklu\joni ta’ ftehim qafas, l-g]oti tal-kuntratt, kandidati u
offerenti.
jew id-d]ul f’sistema dinamika ta’ xiri, inklu\i r-ra[unijiet g]al kull
de`i\joni biex ma jsirx ftehim qafas jew ma jing]atax kuntratt li g]alih
kien hemm sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni jew biex ter[a’ tibda l-pro`edura,
jew biex ma ti[ix implimentata sistema dinamika ta’ xiri; dan it-tag]rif
g]andu jing]ata bil-miktub jekk l-entitajiet kontraenti ji[u hekk
mitluba.
(2) Fuq talba mill-parti kon`ernata, entitajiet kontraenti
g]andhom, kemm jista’ jkun malajr, jg]arrfu
-
lil kull kandidat li ma jing]atax il-kuntratt bir-
ra[unijiet g]ar-rifjut ta’ l-applikazzjoni tieg]u,
-
lil kull offerent bir-ra[unijiet g]ar-rifjut ta’ l-offerta
tieg]u, inklu\i, g]all-ka\ijiet imsemmija fir-regolament 34(4) u
(5), ir-ra[unijiet g]ad-de`i\jonijiet tag]hom ta’ nuqqas ta’
ekwivalenza jew id-de`i\jonijiet tag]hom li x-xog]lijiet, il-
provvisti jew is-servizzi ma jil]qux il-]ti[iet ta’ twettieq jew
funzjonali,
-
lil kull offerent li jag]mel offerta a``ettabbli dwar il-
karatteristi`i u l-vanta[[i relattivi ta’ l-offerta mag]\ula, kif ukoll
bl-isem ta’ l-offerent li jing]ata l-kuntratt jew il-partijiet fil-
ftehim qafas.
I\-\mien me]ud biex isir dan ma jistax ta]t l-ebda
`irkostanzi jaqbe\ il-]mistax-il [urnata minn meta ti[i ri`evuta talba
bil-miktub.
Madankollu, entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u jidde`iedu li `ertu
tag]rif dwar l-g]oti tal-kuntratt jew l-g]emil tal-ftehim qafas jew id-
d]ul f’sistema dinamika ta’ xiri, imsemmija fis-subregolament (1),
g]andu jin\amm meta r-rilaxx ta’ dan it-tag]rif jimpedixxi l-infurzar
tal-li[i jew inkella jkun kuntrarju g]all-interess pubbliku jew ikun
jippre[udika l-interessi kummer`jali le[ittimi ta’ operatur ekonomiku
partikolari, pubbliku jew privat, inklu\i l-interessi ta’ l-operatur
ekonomiku li jkun ing]ata l-kuntratt, jew jistg]u jippre[udikaw
kompetizzjoni [usta bejn operaturi ekonomi`i.
(3) Entitajiet kontraenti li jistabbilixxu u joperaw sistema ta’
kwalifika g]andhom jg]arrfu l-applikanti bid-de`i\joni tag]hom dwar
kwalifika f’perjodu ta’ \mien ta’ sitt xhur. Jekk id-de`i\joni ddum aktar
minn erba’ xhur mill-prezentazzjoni ta’ l-applikazzjoni, l-entità
kontraenti g]andha tg]arraf lill-applikant, fi \mien xahrejn mill-
applikazzjoni, bir-ra[unijiet li ji[[ustifikaw il-perjodu itwal u bid-data
sa meta l-applikazzjoni tieg]u tkun a``ettata jew rifjutata.
(4) Applikanti li l-kwalifika tag]hom hija rifjutata g]andhom
ji[u mg]arrfa b’din id-de`i\joni u r-ra[unijiet g]ar-rifjut kemm jista’
jkun malajr u ta]t ebda `irkostanza aktar minn ]mistax-il [urnata aktar
tard mid-data tad-de`i\joni. Ir-ra[unijiet g]andhom ikunu msejsa fuq
il-kriterji g]al kwalifika msemmija fir-regolament 53(2).
(5) Entitajiet kontraenti li jistabbilixxu u joperaw sistema ta’
kwalifika jistg]u jtemmu l-kwalifika ta’ operatur ekonomiku biss g]al
ra[unijiet ba\ati fuq il-kriterji g]all-kwalifika msemmija fir-
regolament 53(2). Kull intenzjoni biex tintemm kwalifika g]andha ti[i
mg]arrfa bil-miktub lill-operatur ekonomiku minn qabel, mill-inqas
]mistax-il [urnata qabel id-data li fiha l-kwalifika hija mistennija li
tintemm, flimkien mar-ra[uni jew ir-ra[unijiet li ji[[ustifikaw l-azzjoni
proposta.
(1) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom i\ommu tag]rif xieraq Tag]rif li
dwar kull kuntratt li g]andu jkun bi\\ejjed biex jippermettilhom f’data g]andu
re[istrat rigward
aktar tard li ji[[ustifikaw de`i\jonijiet me]uda dwar
g]otjiet.
(a)
il-kwalifika u l-g]a\la ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i u l-
g]oti ta’ kuntratti;
(b) l-u\u ta’ pro`eduri ming]ajr sej]a minn qabel g]al
kompetizzjoni bis-sa]]a tar-regolament 40(3);
(`)
in-nuqqas ta’ applikazzjoni ta’ Kapitoli III sa VI ta’
dan it-Titolu min]abba fid-derogi previsti fil-Kapitolu II tat-
Titolu I u fil-Kapitolu II ta’ dan it-Titolu.
Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jie]du l-passi xierqa biex
jiddokumentaw il-progess ta’ pro`eduri ta’ g]oti mwettqa b’mezzi
elettroni`i.
(2) It-tag]rif g]andu jin\amm g]al mill-inqas erba’ snin mid-
data tal-g]oti tal-kuntratt sabiex l-entità kontraenti tkun tista’, matul
dak il-perjodu, tipprovdi t-tag]rif me]tie[ lill-Kummissjoni u lid-
Direttur jekk issir talba g]al dan it-tag]rif.
Kapitolu VII
Kif titmexxa l-pro`edura
(1) G]all-g]an ta’ l-g]a\la ta’ parte`ipanti fil-pro`eduri Disposizzjoni-
jiet [enerali.
ta’ l-g]oti tag]hom
(a)
entitajiet kontraenti li jkunu g]amlu regoli u kriterji
g]all-esklu\joni ta’ offerenti jew kandidati skond ir-regolament
54(1), (2) jew (4) g]andhom jeskludu operaturi ekonomi`i li
jikkonformaw ma’ dawn ir-regoli u jil]qu dawk il-kriterji;
(b) g]andhom jag]\lu offerenti u kandidati skond ir-
regoli u l-kriterji o[[ettivi stabbiliti skond ir-regolament 54;
(`)
fi pro`eduri ristretti u pro`eduri negozjati b’sej]a g]al
kompetizzjoni, g]andhom fejn ikun adatt skond ir-regolament 54
inaqqsu l-g]add ta’ kandidati mag]\ulin skond il-paragrafi (a) u
(b).
(2) Meta ssir sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar
l-e\istenza ta’ sistema ta’ kwalifika u biex jintg]a\lu parte`ipanti fi
pro`eduri ta’ l-g]oti g]all-kuntratti spe`ifi`i li huma s-su[[ett tas-sej]a
g]all-kompetizzjoni, l-entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom
(a)
jikkwalifikaw l-operaturi
ekonomi`i
skond
id-
disposizzjonijiet tar-regolament 53;
(b) japplikaw g]al dawn l-operaturi ekonomi`i
kwalifikati dawk id-disposizzjonijiet tas-subregolament (1) li
huma rilevanti g]al pro`eduri ristretti jew negozjati.
(3) Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jivverifikaw li l-offerti li
jsiru mill-offerenti mag]\ula huma konformi mar-regoli u l-]ti[iet
applikabbli g]al offerti u jag]tu l-kuntratt abba\i tal-kriterji stabbiliti
fir-regolamenti 55 u 57.
SEZZJONI 1
Kwalifika u g]a\la kwalitattiva
(1) Meta jintag]\lu parte`ipanti g]al pro`edura ristretta
jew negozjata, biex jil]qu d-de`i\joni tag]hom rigward kwalifika jew
meta l-kriterji u r-regoli qed ji[u a[[ornati, entitajiet kontraenti ma
g]andhomx
(a)
jimponu kondizzjonijiet amministrattivi, tekni`i jew
finanzjarji fuq `erti operaturi ekonomi`i li ma jkunux imposti fuq
o]rajn;
(b) je]tie[u testijiet jew provi li jiddupplikaw il-prova
o[[ettiva di[à disponibbli.
(2) Meta jitolbu l-produzzjoni ta’ `ertifikati m]ejjija minn korpi
indipendenti li ji``ertifikaw il-konformità ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku
ma’ `erti standards ta’ assikurazzjoni ta’ kwalità, l-entitajiet kontraenti
g]andhom jirreferu g]al sistemi ta’ assikurazzjoni ta’ kwalità msejsa
fuq is-serje ta’ standards Ewropej rilevanti `ertifikati minn korpijiet li
jikkonformaw mas-serje ta’ standards Ewropej rigward `ertifikazzjoni.
Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jirrikonoxxu `ertifikati ekwivalenti
minn korpi stabbiliti fi Stati Membri o]ra. G]andhom ja``ettaw ukoll
provi o]ra ta’ mi\uri ta’ assikurazzjoni ta’ kwalità ekwivalenti minn
operaturi ekonomi`i.
(3) G]al kuntratti ta’ xog]lijiet u ta’ servizzi, u f’ka\ijiet adatti
biss, l-entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u je]tie[u, sabiex jivverifikaw l-
abilitajiet tekni`i ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku, indikazzjoni tal-mi\uri tat-
tmexxija ambjentali li l-operatur ekonomiku jkun jista’ japplika meta
jwettaq il-kuntratt. F’dawn il-ka\ijiet, jekk l-entitajiet kontraenti
je]tie[u l-produzzjoni ta’ `ertifikati m]ejjija minn korpijiet
indipendenti li ji``ertifikaw il-konformità ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku
ma’ `erti standards ta’ tmexxija ambjentali, g]andhom jirreferu g]all-
EMAS jew g]al standards ta’ tmexxija ambjentali ba\ati fuq standards
rilevanti Ewropej jew internazzjonali kif `ertifikati minn korpijiet li
huma konformi mad-dritt Komunitarju jew ma’ standards rilevanti
Ewropej jew internazzjonali rigward `ertifikazzjoni.
Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jirrikonoxxu `ertifikati
ekwivalenti minn korpijiet stabbiliti fi Stati Membri o]ra. G]andhom
ja``ettaw ukoll provi o]ra ta’ mi\uri ta’ tmexxija ambjentali
ekwivalenti minn operaturi ekonomi`i.
(1) Entitajiet kontraenti li hekk jixtiequ jistg]u Sistemi ta’
jistabbilixxu u joperaw sistema ta’ kwalifika ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i. kwalifika.
Entitajiet kontraenti li jistabbilixxu jew joperaw sistema ta’ kwalifika
g]andhom ji\guraw li l-operaturi ekonomi`i jistg]u f’kull ]in jitolbu l-
kwalifika.
(2) Is-sistema skond is-subregolament (1) tista’ tinvolvi stadji
differenti ta’ kwalifika. G]andha ti[i operata abba\i ta’ kriterji u regoli
o[[ettivi g]all-kwalifika li g]andhom ji[u stabbiliti mill-entità
kontraenti. Meta dawk il-kriterji u r-regoli jinkludu spe`ifikazzjonijiet
tekni`i, g]andhom japplikaw id-disposizzjonijiet tar-regolament 34. Il-
kriterji u r-regoli jistg]u ji[u a[[ornati kif me]tie[.
(3) Il-kriterji u r-regoli g]al kwalifika msemmija fis-
subregolament (2) jistg]u jinkludu l-kriterji ta’ esklu\joni elenkati fir-
regolament 45 dwar il-pattijiet u l-kondizzjonijiet hemm stabbiliti.
Meta l-entità kontraenti hija awtorità kontraenti skond it-tifsira tar-
regolament 2(1)(a), dawk il-kriterji u r-regoli g]andhom jinkludu l-
kriterji ta’ esklu\joni elenkati fir-regolament 45(4).
(4) Meta l-kriterji u r-regoli g]al kwalifika msemmija fis-
subregolament (2) jinkludu ]ti[iet li g]andhom x’jaqsmu mal-kapa`ità
ekonomika u finanzjarja ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku, dak l-operatur jista’
fejn ikun me]tie[ jiddependi fuq il-kapa`ità ta’ entitajiet o]ra, tkun xi
tkun in-natura legali tar-rabta bejnu u dawk l-entitajiet. F’dan il-ka\ l-
operatur ekonomiku g]andu jag]ti prova lill-entità kontraenti li dawn
ir-ri\orsi ser ikunu disponibbli g]aliha matul il-perjodu tal-validità tas-
sistema ta’ kwalifika, per e\empju billi jipprodu`i garanzija minn dawk
l-entitajiet g]al dan il-g]an. Ta]t l-istess kondizzjonijiet, grupp ta’
operaturi ekonomi`i kif imsemmi fir-regolament 11 jista’ jiddependi
fuq il-kapa`ità ta’ parte`ipanti fil-grupp jew ta’ entitajiet o]ra.
(5) Meta l-kriterji u r-regoli g]al kwalifika msemmija fis-
subregolament (2) jinkludu ]ti[iet li g]andhom x’jaqsmu mal-
kapa`itajiet tekni`i u, jew professjonali ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku, dan
ta’ l-a]]ar jista’ fejn ikun me]tie[ jiddependi fuq il-kapa`ità ta’
entitajiet o]ra, tkun xi tkun in-natura legali tar-rabta bejnu u dawk l-
entitajiet. F’dan il-ka\ l-operatur ekonomiku g]andu jag]ti prova lill-
entità kontraenti li dawn ir-ri\orsi ser ikunu disponibbli g]aliha matul
il-perjodu tal-validità tas-sistema ta’ kwalifika, per e\empju billi
jipprodu`i garanzija minn dawk l-entitajiet biex jag]mlu r-ri\orsi
me]tie[a disponibbli g]all-operatur ekonomiku.
Ta]t l-istess kondizzjonijiet, grupp ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i
kif imsemmi fir-regolament 11 jista’ jiddependi fuq il-kapa`itajiet ta’
parte`ipanti fil-grupp jew ta’ entitajiet o]ra.
(6) Il-kriterji u r-regoli g]al kwalifika msemmija fis-
subregolament (2) g]andhom, meta dawn jintalbu, ikunu disponibbli
g]all-operaturi ekonomi`i. L-a[[ornament ta’ dawn il-kriterji u r-regoli
g]andhu ji[i komunikat lil operaturi ekonomi`i interessati.
Meta entità kontraenti tikkunsidra li s-sistema ta’ kwalifika
ta’ `erti entitajiet jew korpi o]ra tkun til]aq il-]ti[iet tag]ha, din
g]andha tikkomunika lill-operaturi ekonomi`i interessati l-ismijiet ta’
dawk l-entitajiet jew korpi o]ra.
(7) G]andu jin\amm record bil-miktub ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i
kwalifikati; dan jista’ jitqassam f’kategoriji skond it-tip ta’ kuntratt li
g]alih tkun valida l-kwalifika.
(8) Meta jkunu qieg]din jistabbilixxu jew joperaw sistema ta’
kwalifika, entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom partikolarment josservaw id-
disposizzjonijiet tar-regolament 41(3) rigward avvi\i dwar l-e\istenza
ta’ sistema ta’ kwalifika, tar-regolament 49(3), (4) u (5) dwar it-tag]rif
li g]andu jitwassal lill-operaturi ekonomi`i li jkunu applikaw g]al
kwalifika, tar-regolament 51(2) rigward l-g]a\la ta’ parte`ipanti meta
ssir sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar l-e\istenza ta’
sistema ta’ kwalifika kif ukoll id-disposizzjonijiet tar-regolament 52
dwar g]arfien re`iproku rigward kondizzjonijiet amministrattivi,
tekni`i jew finanzjarji, `ertifikati, testijiet u provi.
(9) Meta ssir sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni permezz ta’ avvi\ dwar
l-e\istenza ta’ sistema ta’ kwalifika, l-offerenti fi pro`edura ristretta
jew parte`ipanti fi pro`edura negozjata g]andhom jintg]a\lu mill-
kandidati kwalifikati skond din is-sistema.
(1) Entitajiet kontraenti li jistabbilixxu kriterji ta’ g]a\la Kriterji g]al
fi pro`edura miftu]a g]andhom jag]mlu dan skond regoli u kriterji g]a\la
kwalitattiva.
o[[ettivi li huma disponibbli g]al operaturi ekonomi`i interessati.
(2) Entitajiet kontraenti li jag]\lu kandidati g]al pro`eduri
ristretti jew negozjati g]andhom jag]mlu dan skond regoli u kriterji
o[[ettivi li jkunu stabbilixxew u li huma disponibbli g]al operaturi
ekonomi`i interessati.
(3) Fi pro`eduri ristretti jew negozjati, l-kriterji jistg]u jkunu
ba\ati fuq il-]tie[a o[[ettiva ta’ l-entità kontraenti li tnaqqas l-g]add
ta’ kandidati g]al livell li huwa [ustifikat mill-]tie[a li ji[u bilan`jati l-
karatteristi`i partikolari tal-pro`edura ta’ akkwist mar-ri\orsi me]tie[a
biex titmexxa. L-g]add ta’ kandidati mag]\ula g]andu, madankollu,
iqis il-]tie[a li ti[i \gurata kompetizzjoni adegwata.
(4) Il-kriterji msemmija fis-subregolamenti (1) u (2) jistg]u
jinkludu l-kriterji ta’ esklu\joni elenkati fir-regolament 45 tar-
Regolamenti ta’ l-2005 dwar il-Kuntratti Pubbli`i skond il-pattijiet u l-
kondizzjonijiet hemm stabbiliti.
Meta l-entità kontraenti tkun awtorità kontraenti skond it-
tifsira tar-regolament 2(1)(a), il-kriterji u r-regoli msemmija fis-
subregolamenti (1) u (2) g]andhom jinkludu l-kriterji ta’ esklu\joni
elenkati fir-regolament 45(4).
(5) Meta l-kriterji msemmija fis-subregolamenti (1) u (2) ikunu
jinkludu ]ti[iet li g]andhom x’jaqsmu mal-kapa`ità ekonomika u
finanzjarja ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku, dak l-operatur jista’ fejn ikun
me]tie[ u g]al kuntratt partikolari jiddependi fuq il-kapa`ità ta’
entitajiet o]ra, tkun xi tkun in-natura legali tar-rabta bejnu u dawk l-
entitajiet. F’dan il-ka\ l-operatur ekonomiku g]andu jag]ti prova lill-
entità kontraenti li r-ri\orsi me]tie[a ser ikunu disponibbli g]aliha, per
e\empju billi jipprodu`i garanzija minn dawk l-entitajiet g]al dak il-
g]an. Ta]t l-istess kondizzjonijiet, grupp ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i kif
imsemmi fir-regolament 11 jista’ jiddependi fuq il-kapa`itajiet ta’
parte`ipanti fil-grupp jew ta’ entitajiet o]ra.
(6) Meta l-kriterji msemmija fis-subregolamenti (1) u (2)
jinkludu ]ti[iet li g]andhom x’jaqsmu mal-kapa`itajiet tekni`i u, jew
professjonali ta’ l-operatur ekonomiku, dak l-operatur jista’ fejn ikun
me]tie[ u g]al kuntratt partikolari jiddependi fuq il-kapa`itajiet ta’
entitajiet o]ra, tkun xi tkun in-natura legali tar-rabta bejnu u dawk l-
entitajiet. F’dan il-ka\ l-operatur ekonomiku g]andu jag]ti prova lill-
entità kontraenti li, g]at-twettiq tal-kuntratt, dawk ir-ri\orsi ser ikunu
disponibbli g]all-entità, per e\empju billi jag]ti garanzija minn dawk l-
entitajiet li ir-ri\orsi me]tie[a jkunu disponibbli g]all-operatur
ekonomiku.
Ta]t l-istess kondizzjonijiet, grupp ta’ operaturi ekonomi`i
kif imfisser fir-regolament 11 jista’ jiddependi fuq il-kapa`itajiet ta’
parte`ipanti fil-grupp jew ta’ entitajiet o]ra.
SEZZJONI 2
G]oti tal-kuntratt
(1) Ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]al li[ijiet fis-se]] f’Malta
dwar ir-rimunerazzjoni g]al `erti servizzi, il-kriterji li fuqhom l-
entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jibba\aw l-g]oti ta’ kuntratti
g]andhom
(a)
meta l-kuntratt jing]ata abba\i ta’ l-offerta l-aktar
ekonomikament vanta[[u\a mill-lat ta’ l-entità kontraenti, jkunu
kriterji varji marbuta mas-su[[ett prin`ipali tal-kuntratt
imsemmi, b]ad-data tal-kunsinna jew tat-tlestija, spejje\ fl-
operat, il-benefi``ju paragunat ma’ l-infiq, kwalità, karatteristi`i
esteti`i u funzjonali, karatteristi`i ambjentali, mertu tekniku,
servizz wara l-bejg] u g]ajnuna teknika, irbit rigward partijiet ta’
rikambju, sigurtà ta’ provvista, u prezz jew inkella,
(b)
il-prezz l-aktar baxx biss.
(2) Ming]ajr
pre[udizzju
g]ad-disposizzjonijiet
tas-
subregolament (3), fil-ka\ imsemmi fis-subregolament (1)(a), l-entità
kontraenti g]andha tispe`ifika l-importanza relattiva li tag]ti lil kull
wie]ed mill-kriterji mag]\ula biex tistabbilixxi l-offerta l-aktar
ekonomikament vanta[[u\a. Dawk il-gradi ta’ importanza jistg]u ji[u
espressi billi jipprovdu g]al firxa massima adatta. Meta, fl-opinjoni ta’
l-entità kontraenti, ma jkunx possibbli li ting]ata skala ta’ importanza
g]al ra[unijiet li jidhru, l-entità kontraenti g]andha tindika l-kriterji
f’ordni ta’ importanza minn fuq g]al isfel.
(3) L-importanza relattiva jew l-ordni ta’ importanza g]andhom
ji[u spe`ifikati, kif adatt, fl-avvi\ u\at b]ala mezz g]as-sej]a g]al
kompetizzjoni, fl-istedina biex ji[i konfermat l-interess imsemmi fir-
regolament 47(5), fl-istedina g]all-offerta jew g]an-negozjar, jew fl-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet.
(1)
L-entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u ju\aw bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku.
(2) (a)
Fi pro`eduri miftu]a, ristretti jew negozjati b’sej]a
minn qabel g]al kompetizzjoni, l-entitajiet kontraenti jistg]u
jidde`iedu li l-g]oti ta’ kuntratt g]andu jkun pre`edut minn bejg] bl-
irkant elettroniku meta l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tal-kuntratt jistg]u jkunu
stabbiliti bi pre`i\joni. Fl-istess `irkostanzi, bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku
jista’ jin\amm mal-ftu] g]al kompetizzjoni ta’ kuntratti li g]andhom
jing]ataw skond is-sistema dinamika ta’ xiri msemmija fir-regolament
15. (b)
Il-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku g]andu jkun ibba\at
(i)
jew fuq prezzijiet biss meta l-kuntratt
jing]ata lill-prezz l-aktar baxx,
(ii)
jew fuq prezzijiet u, jew il-valuri [odda tal-
karatteristi`i ta’ l-offerti indikati fl-ispe`ifikazzjoni, meta l-
kuntratt
jing]ata
lill-offerta
l-aktar
vanta[[u\a
ekonomikament.
(3) Entitajiet kontraenti li jidde`iedu li jwettqu bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku g]andhom jiddikjaraw il-fatt fl-avvi\ u\at b]ala mezz ta’
sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni. L-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet g]andhom jinkludu,
fost ]wejje[ o]ra, id-dettalji li [ejjin
(a)
il-karatteristi`i li l-valuri tag]hom ikunu s-su[[ett tal-
bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku, sakemm dawn il-karatteristi`i huma
kwantifikabbli u jistg]u ji[u espressi f’`ifri jew per`entwali;
(b) il-limitu fuq il-valuri li jistg]u ji[u pre\entati, kif
dawn jirrizultaw mill-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet li g]andhom x’jaqsmu
mas-su[[ett tal-kuntratt;
(`)
it-tag]rif li ser isir disponibbli g]all-offerenti kollha
matul il-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku u, fejn ikun xieraq, meta dan
ikun ser isir disponibbli g]alihom;
(d) it-tag]rif rilevanti rigward il-pro`ess tal-bejg] bl-
irkant elettroniku;
(e)
il-kondizzjonijiet li ta]thom l-offerenti jkunu jistg]u
joffru u partikolarment, id-differenzi minimi li, fejn ikun adatt,
jin]tie[u meta jag]mlu l-offerti;
(f)
it-taghrif rilevanti rigward it-tag]mir elettroniku w\at
u l-arran[amenti u l-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet tekni`i g]all-
konnessjoni.
(4) Qabel ma jippro`edu bil-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku,
entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jag]mlu valutazzjoni inizjali s]i]a ta’ l-
offerti skond il-kriterju jew kriterji ta’ l-g]oti dikjarati u bl-importanza
stabbilita g]alihom. L-offerenti kollha li jkunu g]amlu offerti
a``ettabbli g]andhom ji[u mistiedna fl-istess ]in permezz ta’ mezzi
elettroni`i biex jippre\entaw prezzijiet [odda u, jew valuri [odda; l-
istedina g]andu jkun fiha t-tag]rif rilevanti kollu rigward konnessjoni
individwali mat-tag]mir elettroniku li qed jintu\a u g]andha tiddikjara
d-data u l-]in tal-bidu tal-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku. Il-bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku jista’ jse]] f’g]add ta’ fa\ijiet su``essivi. Il-bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku ma jistax jibda aktar kmieni minn jumejn tax-xog]ol wara
d-data li fiha jintbag]tu l-istediniet.
(5) (a)
Meta l-kuntratt ikun ser jing]ata abba\i ta’ l-offerta l-
aktar ekonomikament vanta[[u\a, l-istedina g]andu jkollha mag]ha r-
rizultat ta’ valutazzjoni s]i]a ta’ l-offerta rilevanti mwettqa skond l-
ordni ta’ importanza stabbilit fir-regolament 55(2).
(b) L-istedina g]andha tiddikjara wkoll il-formola
matematika li g]andha tintu\a fil-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku sabiex ji[i
determinat ordni awtomatiku mill-[did skond il-prezzijiet [odda u, jew
il-valuri [odda pre\entati. Dik il-formula g]andha tinkorpora l-
importanza li ting]ata lill-kriterji kollha stabbiliti biex ti[i determinata
l-aktar offerta ekonomikament vanta[[u\a, kif indikat fl-avvi\ u\at
b]ala sej]a g]al kompetizzjoni jew fl-ispe`ifikazzjonijiet; g]al dak il-
g]an, l-meded kollha g]andhom, madankollu, jitnaqqsu minn qabel
g]al valur spe`ifikat.
(`)
Meta ji[u awtorizzati elementi li jvarjaw, g]andha
tintu\a formula separata g]al kull element li jvarja.
(6) Matul kull fa\i ta’ bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku l-entitajiet
kontraenti g]andhom jikkomunikaw mill-ewwel lill-offerenti tag]rif
bi\\ejjed biex ikunu jistg]u ja``ertaw il-gradwazzjoni relattiva
tag]hom f’kull ]in. Jistg]u jikkomunikaw ukoll tag]rif ie]or rigward
prezzijiet jew valuri o]ra sottomessi, sakemm dan ikun dikjarat fl-
ispe`ifikazzjonijiet. Jistg]u wkoll f’kull ]in i]abbru l-g]add ta’
parte`ipanti f’dik il-fa\i tal-bejg] bl-irkant. F’ebda ka\, madankollu,
ma jistg]u ji\velaw l-identitajiet ta’ l-offerenti matul kull fa\i tal-bejg]
bl-irkant elettroniku.
(7)
Entitajiet kontraenti g]andhom jag]lqu bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku b’xi wie]ed jew aktar mill-metodi li [ejjin
(a)
fl-istedina biex jie]du parti fil-bejg] bl-irkant
g]andhom jindikaw id-data u l-]in stabbiliti minn qabel;
(b) meta ma jir`ievux aktar prezzijiet jew valuri [odda li
jil]qu l-]ti[iet rigward differenzi minimi. F’dak il-ka\, l-entitajiet
kontraenti g]andhom jiddikjaraw fl-istedina biex jie]du parti fil-
bejg] bl-irkant il-]in li huma jippermettu li jg]addi wara li
jir`ievu l-a]]ar sottomisssjoni qabel ma jag]lqu l-bejg] bl-irkant
elettroniku;
(`)
meta l-g]add ta’ fa\ijiet fil-beg] bl-irkant, stabbilit fl-
istedina biex jie]du parti fil-bejg] bl-irkant, ikun spi``a.
Meta l-entitajiet kontraenti jkunu de`idew li jag]lqu bejg]
bl-irkant elettroniku skond il-paragrafu (`), possibilment flimkien ma’
l-arran[amenti stabbiliti fil-paragrafu (b), l-istedina biex jie]du parti
fil-bejg] bl-irkant g]andha tindika l-kalendarju g]al kull fa\i tal-bejg]
bl-irkant.
(8) Wara li jag]lqu l-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku, l-entitajiet
kontraenti g]andhom jag]tu l-kuntratt skond ir-regolament 55 abba\i
tar-rizultati tal-bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku.
(9) L-awtoritajiet kontraenti ma jistg]ux jag]mlu u\u ]a\in
minn bejg] bl-irkant elettroniku, u l-anqas ma jistg]u ju\awh biex
jostakolaw, jirrestrin[u jew jg]aww[u l-kompetizzjoni jew jibdlu s-
su[[ett tal-kuntratt, kif imfisser fl-avvi\ li jintu\a b]ala sej]a g]all-
kompetizzjoni fl-ispe`ifikazzjoni.
(1) Jekk, g]al kuntratt partikolari, l-offerti jidhru li huma Offerti baxxi
baxxi b’mod anormali meta paragunati mal-merkanzija, xog]lijiet jew b’mod anormali.
servizzi, l-entità kontraenti g]andha, qabel ma tirrifjuta dawk l-offerti,
titlob bil-miktub dettalji ta’ l-elementi kostitwenti ta’ l-offerti li hija
tqis rilevanti. Dawk id-dettalji jistg]u jkollhom x’jaqsmu
partikolarment
(a)
mas-sistemi
ta’
ekonomija
tal-pro`ess
ta’
fabbrikazzjoni, jew tas-servizzi provduti u tal-metodu ta’
kostruzzjoni;
(b) mas-soluzzjonijiet tekni`i mag]\ula u, jew kull
kondizzjoni e``ezzjonalment favorevoli disponibbli lill-offerent
g]all-provvista tal-merkanzija jew servizzi jew g]all-e\ekuzzjoni
tax-xog]ol;
(`)
ma’ l-ori[inalità tal-provvisti, servizzi jew xog]ol
proposti mill-offerent;
(d) ma’ konformità mad-disposizzjonijiet li g]andhom
x’jaqsmu mal-protezzjoni ta’ impjiegi u kondizzjonijiet tax-
xog]ol fis-se]] fil-post fejn ser jitwettaq ix-xog]ol, servizz jew
provvista;
(e)
mal-possibbiltà li l-offerent jikseb g]ajnuna mill-
Istat.
(2) L-entità kontraenti g]andha tivverifika dawk l-elementi
kostitwenti billi tikkonsulta ma’ l-offerent, waqt li tqis ix-xhieda
mog]tija.
(3) Meta entità kontraenti tistabbilixxi li offerta hija baxxa
b’mod anormali min]abba f’li l-offerent ikun kiseb g]ajnuna mill-Istat,
l-offerta tista’ ti[i rifjutata fuq dik il-ba\i biss wara konsultazzjoni ma’
l-offerent meta dan l-offerent ma jkunx jista’ jag]ti prova, f’limitu ta’
\mien suffi`jenti stabbilit mill-entità kontraenti, li l-g]ajnuna
msemmija tkun ing]atat legalment. Meta l-entità kontraenti tirrifjuta
offerta f’dawn i`-`irkostanzi, hija g]andha tg]arraf lill-Kummissjoni u
lid-Direttur b’dak il-fatt.
SEZZJONI 3
Offerti li jikkomprendu prodotti li jori[inaw f’pajji\i terzi u
relazzjonijiet ma’ dawk il-pajji\i
(1) Dan ir-regolament g]andu japplika g]al offerti li
jkopru prodotti li jori[inaw f’pajji\i terzi li mag]hom il-Komunità tkun
g]adha ma konkludietx, b’mod kemm multilaterali kemm bilaterali,
ftehim li ji\gura a``ess komparabbli u effettiv g]al intrapri\i tal-
Komunità g]as-swieq ta’ dawk il-pajji\i terzi. Dan g]andu jkun
ming]ajr pre[udizzju g]all-obbligi tal-Komunità jew ta’ Malta rigward
pajji\i terzi.
(2) Kull offerta li ssir g]all-g]oti ta’ kuntratt ta’ provvista tista’
ti[i rifjutata fejn il-proporzjon tal-prodotti li jori[inaw f’pajji\i terzi,
kif stabbilit skond ir-Regolament tal-Kunsill (KEE) Nru 2913/92 tat-12
ta’ Ottubru 1992 li jistabbilixxi l-Kodi`i Doganali Komunitarju, ikun
jaqbe\ il-]amsin fil-mija tal-valur totali tal-prodotti li jikkositiwixxu l-
offerta. G]all-g]anijiet ta’ dan ir-regolament, software u\at f’apparat
ta’ rettikolat tat-telekomunikazzjonijiet g]andu jitqies b]ala prodotti.
(3) (a)
Bla ]sara g]all-paragrafu (b), meta \ew[ offerti jew
aktar huma ekwivalenti fid-dawl tal-kriterji ta’ l-g]oti tal-kuntratt
imfissra fir-regolament 55, g]andha ting]ata preferenza lil dawk l-
offerti li ma jistg]ux ji[u rifjutati skond is-subregolament (2). Il-
prezzijiet ta’ dawk l-offerti g]andhom jitqiesu ekwivalenti g]all-
g]anijiet ta’ dan ir-regolament, jekk id-differenza fil-prezz ma taqbi\x
it-tlieta fil-mija.
(b) Madankollu, offerta ma g]andhiex ting]ata
preferenza fuq o]ra skond il-paragrafu (a) meta l-a``ettazzoni tag]ha
tkun tobbliga lill-entità kontraenti li takkwista tag]mir li g]andu
karatteristi`i tekni`i differenti minn dawk ta’ tag]mir e\istenti, li
jirri\ulta f’inkompatibilità, diffikultajiet tekni`i fl-operat u l-
manutenzjoni, jew spejje\ sproporzjonati.
(4) G]all-finijiet ta’ dan ir-regolament, dawk il-pajji\i terzi li
g]alihom il-benefi``ju tad-disposizzjonijiet ta’ dan ir-regolament ikun
[ew esti\ b’De`i\joni tal-Kunsill skond is-subregolament (1) ma
g]andhomx jitqiesu meta ji[i stabbilit il-proporzjon, imsemmi fis-
subregolament (2), tal-prodotti li jori[inaw mill-pajji\i terzi.
32. Contracts which have as their object services listed in Service
contracts listed
Schedule XIX shall be governed solely by regulations 34 and 43.
in Schedule
XIX.
33. Contracts which have as their subject-matter services listed Mixed service
both in Schedule XVIII and in Schedule XIX shall be awarded in contracts
including
accordance with regulations 34 to 59 where the value of the services services listed in
Schedule XVIII
listed in Schedule XVIII is greater than the value of the services listed and services
in Schedule XIX. In other cases, contracts shall be awarded in listed
Schedule XIX.
accordance with regulations 34 and 43.
CHAPTER IV
Specific rules governing specifications and contract documents
34. (1) Technical specifications as defined in point 1 of Technical
Schedule XXIII shall be set out in the contract documentation, such specifications.
as contract notices, contract documents or additional documents.
Whenever possible these technical specifications should be defined so
as to take into account accessibility criteria for people with
disabilities or design for all users.
(2) Technical specifications shall afford equal access for
tenderers and not have the effect of creating unjustified obstacles to
the opening up of public procurement to competition.
(3) Without prejudice to legally binding national technical
rules, to the extent that they are compatible with Community law, the
technical specifications shall be formulated
(a)
either by reference to technical specifications
defined in Schedule XXIII and, in order of preference, to
national standards transposing European standards, European
technical approvals, common technical specifications,
international standards, other technical reference systems
established by the European standardisation bodies or - when
these do not exist - national standards, national technical
approvals or national technical specifications relating to the
design, calculation and execution of the works and use of the
products. Each reference shall be accompanied by the words "or
equivalent"; or
(b) in terms of performance or functional requirements;
the latter may include environmental characteristics. However,
such parameters must be sufficiently precise to allow tenderers
to determine the subject-matter of the contract and to allow
contracting entities to award the contract; or
(c)
in terms of performance or functional requirements
as mentioned in paragraph (b), with reference to the
specifications mentioned in paragraph (a) as a means of
presuming conformity with such performance or functional
requirements; or
(d) by referring to the specifications mentioned in
paragraph (a) for certain characteristics, and by referring to the
performance or functional requirements mentioned in paragraph
(b) for other characteristics.
(4) Where a contracting entity makes use of the option of
referring to the specifications mentioned in subregulation (3)(a), it
cannot reject a tender on the ground that the products and services
tendered for do not comply with the specifications to which it has
referred, once the tenderer proves in his tender to the satisfaction of
the contracting entity, by whatever appropriate means, that the
solutions which he proposes satisfy in an equivalent manner the
requirements defined by the technical specifications. An appropriate
means might be constituted by a technical dossier from the
manufacturer or a test report from a recognised body.
(5) Where a contracting entity uses the option provided for in
subregulation (3) of laying down performance or functional
requirements, it may not reject a tender for products, services or
works which comply with a national standard transposing a European
standard, with a European technical approval, a common technical
specification, an international standard, or a technical reference
system established by a European standardisation body, if these
specifications address the performance or functional requirements
which it has laid down.
In his tender, the tenderer shall prove to the satisfaction of the
contracting entity and by any appropriate means that the product,
service or work in compliance with the standard meets the
performance or functional requirements of the contracting entity.
An appropriate means might be constituted by a technical
dossier from the manufacturer or a test report from a recognised body.
(6) Where contracting entities lay down environmental
characteristics in terms of performance or functional requirements as
referred to in subregulation (3)(b) they may use the detailed
specifications, or, if necessary, parts thereof, as defined by European
or (multi-) national eco-labels, or by any other eco-label, provided
that
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those specifications are appropriate to define the
characteristics of the supplies or services that are the object of
the contract,
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the requirements for the label are drawn up on the
basis of scientific information,
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the eco-labels are adopted using a procedure in
which all stakeholders, such as government bodies, consumers,
manufacturers, distributors and environmental organisations can
participate, and
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they are accessible to all interested parties.
Contracting entities may indicate that the products and services
bearing the eco-label are presumed to comply with the technical
specifications laid down in the contract documents; they must accept
any other appropriate means of proof, such as a technical dossier from
the manufacturer or a test report from a recognised body.
(7) "Recognised bodies", within the meaning of this
regulation, are test and calibration laboratories, and certification and
inspection bodies which comply with applicable European standards.
Contracting entities shall accept certificates from recognised bodies
established in other Member States.
(8) Unless justified by the subject-matter of the contract,
technical specifications shall not refer to a specific make or source, or
to a particular process, or to trade marks, patents, types or a specific
origin or production with the effect of favouring or eliminating
certain undertakings or certain products. Such reference shall be
permitted, on an exceptional basis, where a sufficiently precise and
intelligible description of the subject-matter of the contract pursuant
to subregulations (3) and (4) is not possible; such reference shall be
accompanied by the words "or equivalent".
35. (1) Contracting entities shall make available on request
to economic operators interested in obtaining a contract the technical
specifications regularly referred to in their supply, works or service
contracts, or the technical specifications which they intend to apply to
contracts covered by periodic indicative notices within the meaning
of regulation 41(1).
(2) Where the technical specifications are based on documents
available to interested economic operators, the inclusion of a
reference to those documents shall be sufficient.
36. (1) Where the criterion for the award of the contract is
that of the most economically advantageous tender, contracting
entities may take account of variants which are submitted by a
tenderer and meet the minimum requirements specified by the
contracting entities. Contracting entities shall indicate in the
specifications whether or not they authorise variants and, if so, the
minimum requirements to be met by the variants and any specific
requirements for their presentation.
(2) In procedures for awarding supply or service contracts,
contracting entities which have authorised variants pursuant to
subregulation (1) may not reject a variant on the sole ground that it
would, if successful, lead either to a service contract rather than a
supply contract or to a supply contract rather than a service contract.
37. In the contract documents, the contracting entity may ask
the tenderer to indicate in his tender any share of the contract he
intends to subcontract to third parties and any proposed
subcontractors. This indication shall be without prejudice to the
question of the principal economic operator's liability.
38. Contracting entities may lay down special conditions
relating to the performance of a contract, provided that these are
compatible with Community law and are indicated in the notice used
as a means of calling for competition or in the specifications. The
conditions governing the performance of a contract may, in particular,
concern social and environmental considerations.
39. (1) A contracting entity may state in the contract Obligations
documents the body or bodies from which a candidate or tenderer relating
environmental
may obtain the appropriate information on the obligations relating to protection,
employment
taxes, to environmental protection, to protection provisions and to the protection
working conditions which are in force in Malta and which shall be provisions
working
applicable to the works carried out on site or to the services provided conditions.
during the performance of the contract.
(2) A contracting entity which supplies the information
referred to in subregulation (1) shall request the tenderers or
candidates in the contract award procedure to indicate that they have
taken account, when drawing up their tender, of the obligations
relating to employment protection provisions and the working
conditions which are in force. The provisions of subregulation (1)
shall be without prejudice to the application of regulation 57.
CHAPTER V
Procedures
40. (1) When awarding supply, works or service contracts, Use of open,
contracting entities shall apply the procedures adjusted for the restricted
negotiated
procedures.
purposes of these regulations.
(2) Contracting entities may choose any of the procedures
described in regulation 1, in the definition of "open, restricted and
negotiated procedures", provided that, subject to subregulation (3), a
call for competition has been made in accordance with regulation 42.
(3) Contracting entities may use a procedure without prior call
for competition in the following cases
(a)
when no tenders or no suitable tenders or no
applications have been submitted in response to a procedure
with a prior call for competition, provided that the initial
conditions of contract are not substantially altered;
(b) where a contract is purely for the purpose of
research, experiment, study or development, and not for the
purpose of securing a profit or of recovering research and
development costs, and insofar as the award of such contract
does not prejudice the competitive award of subsequent
contracts which do seek, in particular, those ends;
(c)
when, for technical or artistic reasons, or for reasons
connected with the protection of exclusive rights, the contract
may be executed only by a particular economic operator;
(d) insofar as is strictly necessary when, for reasons of
extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the
contracting entities, the time limits laid down for open
procedures, restricted procedures and negotiated procedures
with a prior call for competition cannot be adhered to;
(e)
in the case of supply contracts for additional
deliveries by the original supplier which are intended either as a
partial replacement of normal supplies or installations or as the
extension of existing supplies or installations, where a change
of supplier would oblige the contracting entity to acquire
material having different technical characteristics which would
result in incompatibility or disproportionate technical
difficulties in operation and maintenance;
(f)
for additional works or services which were not
included in the project initially awarded or in the contract first
concluded but have, through unforeseen circumstances, become
necessary to the performance of the contract, on condition that
the award is made to the contractor or service provider
executing the original contract
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when such additional works or services
cannot be technically or economically separated from the
main contract without great inconvenience to the
contracting entities, or
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when such additional works or services,
although separable from the performance of the original
contract, are strictly necessary to its later stages;
(g) in the case of works contracts, for new works
consisting in the repetition of similar works assigned to the
contractor to which the same contracting entities awarded an
earlier contract, provided that such works conform to a basic
project for which a first contract was awarded after a call for
competition; as soon as the first project is put up for tender,
notice shall be given that this procedure might be adopted and
the total estimated cost of subsequent works shall be taken into
consideration by the contracting entities when they apply the
provisions of regulations 16 and 17;
(h)
for supplies quoted and purchased on a commodity
market;
(i)
for contracts to be awarded on the basis of a
framework agreement, provided that the condition referred to in
regulation 14(2) is fulfilled;
(j)
for bargain purchases, where it is possible to procure
supplies by taking advantage of a particularly advantageous
opportunity available for a very short time at a price
considerably lower than normal market prices;
(k) for purchases of supplies under particularly
advantageous conditions from either a supplier definitively
winding up his business activities or the receivers or liquidators
of a bankruptcy, an arrangement with creditors or a similar
procedure under the laws of Malta;
(l)
when the service contract concerned is part of the
follow-up to a design contest organised in accordance with the
provisions of these regulations and shall, in accordance with the
relevant rules, be awarded to the winner or to one of the winners
of that contest; in the latter case, all the winners shall be invited
to participate in the negotiations.
CHAPTER VI
Rules on publication and transparency
Section 1
Publication of notices
41. (1) Contracting entities shall make known, at least once Periodic
a year, by means of a periodic indicative notice as referred to in indicative
notices and
Schedule XV, published by the Commission or by themselves or by notices on the
existence of a
the Department of Contracts on their "buyer profile", as described in system of
qualification.
point 2(b) of Schedule XXII
(a)
where supplies are concerned, the estimated total
value of the contracts or the framework agreements by product
area which they intend to award over the following twelve
months, where the total estimated value, taking into account the
provisions of regulations 16 and 17, is equal to or greater than
Lm300,000. The product area shall be established by the
contracting entities by reference to the CPV nomenclature;
(b) where services are concerned, the estimated total
value of the contracts or the framework agreements in each of
the categories of services listed in Schedule XVIII which they
intend to award over the following twelve months, where such
estimated total value, taking into account the provisions of
regulations 16 and 17, is equal to or greater than Lm300,000;
(c)
where works are concerned, the essential
characteristics of the works contracts or the framework
agreements which they intend to award over the following
twelve months, whose estimated value is equal to or greater than
the threshold specified in regulation 16, taking into account the
provisions of regulation 17.
The notices referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) shall be sent to
the Commission and the Director or published on the buyer profile as
soon as possible after the beginning of the budgetary year.
The notice referred to in paragraph (c) shall be sent to the
Commission and the Director or published on the buyer profile as
soon as possible after the decision approving the planning of the
works contracts or the framework agreements that the contracting
entities intend to award.
Contracting entities which publish a periodic indicative notice
on their buyer profiles shall transmit to the Commission and the
Director, electronically, a notice of the publication of the periodic
indicative notice on a buyer profile, in accordance with the format
and procedures for the electronic transmission of notices indicated in
point 3 of Schedule XXII.
The publication of the notices referred to in paragraphs (a), (b)
and (c) shall be compulsory only where the contracting entities take
the option of reducing the time limits for the receipt of tenders as laid
down in regulation 45(4).
This paragraph shall not apply to procedures without prior call
for competition.
(2) Contracting entities may, in particular, publish or arrange
for the Commission and the Director to publish periodic indicative
notices relating to major projects without repeating information
previously included in a periodic indicative notice, provided that it is
clearly pointed out that these notices are additional ones.
(3) Where contracting entities choose to set up a qualification
system in accordance with regulation 53, the system shall be the
subject of a notice as referred to in Schedule XIV, indicating the
purpose of the qualification system and how to have access to the
rules concerning its operation. Where the system is of a duration
greater than three years, the notice shall be published annually. Where
the system is of a shorter duration, an initial notice shall suffice.
42. (1) In the case of supply, works or service contracts, the Notices used as
a means of
call for competition may be made
calling for
competition.
(a)
by means of a periodic indicative notice as referred
to in Schedule XV; or
(b) by means of a notice on the existence of a
qualification system as referred to in Schedule XIV; or
(c)
by means of a contract notice as referred to in
Schedule XIII, Sections A, B or C.
(2) In the case of dynamic purchasing systems, the system's
call for competition shall be by contract notice as referred to in
subregulation 1(c), whereas calls for competition for contracts based
on such systems shall be by simplified contract notice as referred to in
Schedule XIII, Section D.
(3) When a call for competition is made by means of a
periodic indicative notice, the notice shall
(a)
refer specifically to the supplies, works or services
which will be the subject of the contract to be awarded;
(b) indicate that the contract will be awarded by
restricted or negotiated procedure without further publication of
a notice of a call for competition and invite interested economic
operators to express their interest in writing; and
(c)
have been published in accordance with Schedule
XXII not more than twelve months prior to the date on which
the invitation referred to in regulation 47(5) is sent. Moreover,
the contracting entity shall meet the time limits laid down in
regulation 45.
43. (1) Contracting entities which have awarded a contract Contract award
or a framework agreement shall, within two months of the award of notices.
the contract or framework agreement, send a contract award notice as
referred to in Schedule XVII.
In the case of contracts awarded under a framework agreement
within the meaning of regulation 14(2), the contracting entities shall
not be bound to send a notice of the results of the award procedure for
each contract based on that agreement.
Contracting entities shall send a contract award notice based on
a dynamic purchasing system within two months after the award of
each contract. They may, however, group such notices on a quarterly
basis. In that case, they shall send the grouped notices within two
months of the end of each quarter.
(2) The information provided in accordance with Schedule
XVII and intended for publication shall be published in accordance
with Schedule XXII. In this connection, the Commission and the
Director shall respect any sensitive commercial aspects which the
contracting entities may point out when forwarding this information,
concerning the number of tenders received, the identity of economic
operators, or prices.
(3) Where contracting entities award a research-and-
development service contract ("R & D contract") by way of a
procedure without a call for competition in accordance with
regulation 40(3)(b), they may limit to the reference "research and
development services" the information to be provided in accordance
with Schedule XVII concerning the nature and quantity of the
services provided.
Where contracting entities award an R & D contract which
cannot be awarded by way of a procedure without a call for
competition in accordance with regulation 40(3)(b), they may, on
grounds of commercial confidentiality, limit the information to be
provided in accordance with Schedule XVII concerning the nature
and quantity of the services supplied.
In such cases, contracting entities shall ensure that any
information published under this paragraph is no less detailed than
that contained in the notice of the call for competition published in
accordance with regulation 42(1).
If they use a qualification system, contracting entities shall
ensure in such cases that such information is no less detailed than the
category referred to in the list of qualified service providers drawn up
in accordance with regulation 53(7).
(4) In the case of contracts awarded for services listed in
Schedule XIX, the contracting entities shall indicate in the notice
whether they agree to publication.
(5) Information provided in accordance with Schedule XVII
and marked as not being intended for publication shall be published
only in simplified form and in accordance with Schedule XXII for
statistical purposes.
44. (1) Notices shall include the information mentioned in Form and
Schedules XIII, XIV, XV, XVI and XVII and, where appropriate, any manner
publication of
other information deemed useful by the contracting entity in the notices.
format of standard forms adopted by the Commission.
(2) Notices sent by contracting entities to the Commission and
the Director shall be sent either by electronic means in accordance
with the format and procedures for transmission indicated in point 3
of Schedule XXII, or by other means.
The notices referred to in regulations 41, 42 and 43 shall be
published in accordance with the technical characteristics for
publication set out in point 1(a) and (b) of Schedule XXII.
(3) Notices drawn up and transmitted by electronic means in
accordance with the format and procedures for transmission indicated
in point 3 of Schedule XXII, shall be published no later than five days
after they are sent.
Notices which are not transmitted by electronic means in
accordance with the format and procedures for transmission indicated
in point 3 of Schedule XXII shall be published not later than twelve
days after they are transmitted. However, in exceptional cases, the
contract notices referred to in regulation 42(1)(c) shall be published
within five days in response to a request by the contracting entity,
provided that the notice has been sent by fax.
(4) Contract notices shall be published in full in an official
language of the Community as chosen by the contracting entity, this
original language version constituting the sole authentic text. A
summary of the important elements of each notice shall be published
in the other official languages. The costs of publication of notices by
the Commission shall be borne by the Community.
(5) Notices and their contents may not be published at national
level before the date on which they are sent to the Commission.
Notices published at national level shall not contain information other
than that contained in the notices dispatched to the Commission or
published on a buyer profile in accordance with the first subparagraph
of regulation 41(1), but shall mention the date of dispatch of the
notice to the Commission or its publication on the buyer profile.
Periodic indicative notices may not be published on a buyer profile
before the dispatch to the Commission of the notice of their
publication in that form; they shall mention the date of that dispatch.
(6) Contracting entities shall ensure that they are able to
supply proof of the dates on which notices are dispatched.
(7) The Commission shall give the contracting entity
confirmation of the publication of the information sent, mentioning
the date of that publication. Such confirmation shall constitute proof
of publication.
(8) Contracting entities may publish in accordance with
subregulations (1) to (7) contract notices which are not subject to the
publication requirements laid down in these regulations.
Section 2
Time limits
45. (1) When fixing the time limits for requests to
participate and the receipt of tenders, contracting entities shall take
particular account of the complexity of the contract and the time
required for drawing up tenders, without prejudice to the minimum
time limits set by this regulation.
(2) In the case of open procedures, the minimum time limit for
the receipt of tenders shall be fifty-two days from the date on which
the contract notice was sent.
(3) In restricted procedures and in negotiated procedures with
a prior call for competition, the following arrangements shall apply
(a)
the time limit for the receipt of requests to
participate, in response to a notice published under regulation
42(1)(c), or in response to an invitation by the contracting
entities under regulation 47(5), shall, as a general rule, be fixed
at no less than thirty-seven days from the date on which the
notice or invitation was sent and may in no case be less than
twenty-two days if the notice is sent for publication by means
other than electronic means or fax, and at no less than fifteen
days if the notice is transmitted by such means;
(b) the time limit for the receipt of tenders may be set by
mutual agreement between the contracting entity and the
selected candidates, provided that all candidates have the same
time to prepare and submit their tenders;
(c)
where it is not possible to reach agreement on the
time limit for the receipt of tenders, the contracting entity shall
fix a time limit which shall, as a general rule, be at least twenty-
four days and shall in no case be less than ten days from the date
of the invitation to tender.
(4) If the contracting entities have published a periodic
indicative notice as referred to in regulation 41(1) in accordance with
Schedule XXII, the minimum time limit for the receipt of tenders in
open procedures shall, as a general rule, not be less than thirty-six
days, but shall in no case be less than twenty-two days from the date
on which the notice was sent. These reduced time limits are
permitted, provided that the periodic indicative notice has included,
in addition to the information required by Schedule XV, Part I, all the
information required by Schedule XV, Part II, insofar as the latter
information is available at the time the notice is published, and that
the notice has been sent for publication between fifty-two days and
twelve months before the date on which the contract notice referred to
in regulation 42(1)(c) is sent.
(5) Where notices are drawn up and transmitted by electronic
means in accordance with the format and procedures for transmission
indicated in point 3 of Schedule XXII the time limits for the receipt of
requests to participate in restricted and negotiated procedures, and for
receipt of tenders in open procedures, may be reduced by seven days.
(6) Except in the case of a time limit set by mutual agreement
in accordance with subregulation (3)(b), time limits for the receipt of
tenders in open, restricted and negotiated procedures may be further
reduced by five days where the contracting entity offers unrestricted
and full direct access to the contract documents and any
supplementary documents by electronic means from the date on
which the notice used as a means of calling for competition is
published, in accordance with Schedule XXII. The notice should
specify the internet address at which this documentation is accessible.
(7) In open procedures, the cumulative effect of the reductions
provided for in subregulations (4), (5) and (6) may in no case result in
a time limit for the receipt of tenders of less than fifteen days from the
date on which the contract notice is sent
Provided that, if the contract notice is not transmitted by
fax or electronic means, the cumulative effect of the reductions
provided for in subregulations (4), (5) and (6) may in no case result in
a time limit for receipt of tenders in an open procedure of less than
twenty-two days from the date on which the contract notice is
transmitted.
(8) (a)
The cumulative effect of the reductions provided for
in subregulations (4), (5) and (6) may in no case result in a time limit
for receipt of requests to participate, in response to a notice published
under regulation 42(1)(c), or in response to an invitation by the
contracting entities under regulation 47(5), of less than fifteen days
from the date on which the contract notice or invitation is sent.
(b) In restricted and negotiated procedures, the
cumulative effect of the reductions provided for in subregulations (4),
(5) and (6) may in no case, except that of a time limit set by mutual
agreement in accordance with subregulation (3)(b), result in a time
limit for the receipt of tenders of less than ten days from the date of
the invitation to tender.
(9) If, for whatever reason, the contract documents and the
supporting documents or additional information, although requested
in good time, have not been supplied within the time limits set in
regulations 46 and 47, or where tenders can be made only after a visit
to the site or after on-the-spot inspection of the documents supporting
the contract documents, the time limits for the receipt of tenders shall
be extended accordingly, except in the case of a time limit set by
mutual agreement in accordance with subregulation (3)(b), so that all
economic operators concerned may be aware of all the information
needed for the preparation of a tender.
(10) A summary table of the time limits laid down in this
regulation is given in Schedule XXIV.
46. In open procedures, where contracting entities do not offer
unrestricted and full direct access by electronic means in accordance
with regulation 45(6) to the specifications and any supporting
documents, the specifications and supporting documents shall be sent
to economic operators within six days of receipt of the request,
provided that the request was made in good time before the time limit
for the submission of tenders
Provided that it has been requested in good time, additional
information relating to the specifications shall be supplied by the
contracting entities or competent departments not later than six days
before the time limit fixed for the receipt of tenders.
47. (1) In restricted procedures and negotiated procedures,
contracting entities shall simultaneously and in writing invite the
selected candidates to submit their tenders or to negotiate. The
invitation to the candidates shall include either
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a copy of the specifications and any supporting
documents, or
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a reference to accessing the specifications and the
supporting documents indicated in the first indent, when they
are made directly available by electronic means in accordance
with regulation 45(6).
(2) Where the specifications and, or any supporting documents
are held by an entity other than the contracting entity responsible for
the award procedure, the invitation shall state the address from which
those specifications and documents may be requested and, if
appropriate, the closing date for requesting such documents, the sum
payable for obtaining them and any payment procedures. The
competent department shall send that documentation to the economic
operator immediately upon receipt of the request.
(3) The additional information on the specifications or the
supporting documents shall be sent by the contracting entity or the
competent department not less than six days before the final date
fixed for the receipt of tenders, provided that it is requested in good
time.
(4) In addition, the invitation shall include at least the
following
(a)
where appropriate, the time limit for requesting
additional documents, as well as the amount and terms of
payment of any sum to be paid for such documents;
(b) the final date for receipt of tenders, the address to
which they are to be sent, and the language or languages in
which they are to be drawn up;
(c)
a reference to any published contract notice;
(d)
an indication of any documents to be attached;
(e)
the criteria for the award of the contract, where they
are not indicated in the notice on the existence of a qualification
system used as a means of calling for competition;
(f)
the relative weighting of the contract award criteria
or, where appropriate, the order of importance of such criteria, if
this information is not given in the contract notice, the notice on
the existence of a qualification system or the specifications.
(5) When a call for competition is made by means of a
periodic indicative notice, contracting entities shall subsequently
invite all candidates to confirm their interest on the basis of detailed
information on the contract concerned before beginning the selection
of tenderers or participants in negotiations. This invitation shall
include at least the following information
(a)
nature and quantity, including all options concerning
complementary contracts and, if possible, the estimated time
available for exercising these options for renewable contracts,
the nature and quantity and, if possible, the estimated
publication dates of future notices of competition for works,
supplies or services to be put out to tender;
(b)
type of procedure: restricted or negotiated;
(c)
where appropriate, the date on which the delivery of
supplies or the execution of works or services is to commence
or terminate;
(d) the address and closing date for the submission of
requests for tender documents and the language or languages in
which they are to be drawn up;
(e)
the address of the entity which is to award the
contract and the information necessary for obtaining the
specifications and other documents;
(f)
economic and technical conditions, financial
guarantees and information required from economic operators;
(g) the amount and payment procedures for any sum
payable for obtaining tender documents;
(h) the form of the contract which is the subject of the
invitation to tender: purchase, lease, hire or hire-purchase, or
any combination of these; and
(i)
the contract award criteria and their weighting or,
where appropriate, the order of importance of such criteria, if
this information is not given in the indicative notice or the
specifications or in the invitation to tender or to negotiate.
Section 3
Communication and information
48. (1) All communication and information exchange
referred to in this Title may be carried out by post, by fax, by
electronic means in accordance with subregulations (4) and (5), by
telephone in the cases and circumstances referred to in subregulation
(6), or by a combination of those means, according to the choice of
the contracting entity.
(2) The means of communication chosen shall be generally
available and thus not restrict economic operators' access to the
tendering procedure.
(3) Communication and the exchange and storage of
information shall be carried out in such a way as to ensure that the
integrity of data and the confidentiality of tenders and requests to
participate are preserved, and that the contracting entities examine the
content of tenders and requests to participate only after the time limit
set for submitting them has expired.
(4) The tools to be used for communicating by electronic
means, as well as their technical characteristics, shall be non-
discriminatory, generally available and interoperable with the
information and communication technology products in general use.
(5) The following rules are applicable to devices for the
electronic transmission and receipt of tenders and to devices for the
electronic receipt of requests to participate
(a)
information regarding the specifications necessary
for the electronic submission of tenders and requests to
participate, including encryption, shall be available to interested
parties. Moreover, the devices for the electronic receipt of
tenders and requests to participate shall conform to the
requirements of Schedule XXVI;
(b) contracting entities may, in compliance with Article
5 of Directive 1999/93/EC, require that electronic tenders be
accompanied by an advanced electronic signature in conformity
with paragraph 1 thereof;
(c)
Member States may introduce or maintain voluntary
accreditation schemes aiming at enhanced levels of certification
service provision for these devices;
(d) tenderers or candidates shall undertake to submit,
before expiry of the time limit laid down for the submission of
tenders or requests to participate, the documents, certificates
and declarations mentioned in regulations 52(2), 52(3), 53 and
54 if they do not exist in electronic format.
(6) The following rules shall apply to the transmission of
requests to participate
(a)
requests to participate in procedures for the award of
contracts may be made in writing or by telephone;
(b) where requests to participate are made by telephone,
a written confirmation must be sent before expiry of the time
limit set for their receipt;
(c)
contracting entities may require that requests for
participation made by fax should be confirmed by post or by
electronic means, where this is necessary for the purposes of
legal proof. Any such requirement, together with the time limit
for sending confirmation by post or electronic means, should be
stated by the contracting entity in the notice used as a means of
calling for competition or in the invitation referred to in
regulation 47(5).
49. (1) Contracting entities shall as soon as possible inform
the economic operators involved of decisions reached concerning the
conclusion of a framework agreement, the award of the contract, or
admission to a dynamic purchasing system, including the grounds for
any decision not to conclude a framework agreement or award a
contract for which there has been a call for competition or to
recommence the procedure, or not to implement a dynamic
purchasing system; this information shall be provided in writing if the
contracting entities are requested to do so.
(2) On request from the party concerned, contracting entities
shall, as soon as possible, inform
-
any unsuccessful candidate of the reasons for the
rejection of his application,
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any unsuccessful tenderer of the reasons for the
rejection of his tender, including, for the cases referred to in
regulation 34(4) and (5), the reasons for their decision of non-
equivalence or their decision that the works, supplies or services
do not meet the performance or functional requirements,
-
any tenderer who has made an admissible tender of
the characteristics and relative advantages of the tender
selected, as well as the name of the successful tenderer or the
parties to the framework agreement.
The time taken to do so may under no circumstances
exceed fifteen days from receipt of the written enquiry.
However, contracting entities may decide that certain
information on the contract award or the conclusion of the framework
agreement or on admission to a dynamic purchasing system, referred
to in subregulation (1), is to be withheld where release of such
information would impede law enforcement or otherwise be contrary
to the public interest or would prejudice the legitimate commercial
interests of a particular economic operator, public or private,
including the interests of the economic operator to whom the contract
has been awarded, or might prejudice fair competition between
economic operators.
(3) Contracting entities which establish and operate a system
of qualification shall inform applicants of their decision as to
qualification within a period of six months. If the decision will take
longer than four months from the presentation of an application, the
contracting entity shall inform the applicant, within two months of the
application, of the reasons justifying the longer period and of the date
by which his application will be accepted or refused.
(4) Applicants whose qualification is refused shall be
informed of this decision and the reasons for refusal as soon as
possible and under no circumstances more than fifteen days later than
the date of the decision. The reasons shall be based on the criteria for
qualification referred to in regulation 53(2).
(5) Contracting entities which establish and operate a system
of qualification may bring the qualification of an economic operator
to an end only for reasons based on the criteria for qualification
referred to in regulation 53(2). Any intention to bring qualification to
an end shall be notified in writing to the economic operator
beforehand, at least fifteen days before the date on which
qualification is due to end, together with the reason or reasons
justifying the proposed action.
50. (1) Contracting entities shall keep appropriate Information to
information on each contract which shall be sufficient to permit them be
concerning
awards.
at a later date to justify decisions taken in connection with
(a)
the qualification and selection
of
economic
operators and the award of contracts;
(b) the use of procedures without a prior call for
competition by virtue of regulation 40(3);
(c)
the non-application of Chapters III to VI of this Title
by virtue of the derogations provided for in Chapter II of Title I
and in Chapter II of this Title.
Contracting entities shall take appropriate steps to
document the progress of award procedures conducted by electronic
means.
(2) The information shall be kept for at least four years from
the date of award of the contract so that the contracting entity will be
able, during that period, to provide the necessary information to the
Commission or the Director if a request for such is made.
CHAPTER VII
Conduct of the procedure
51. (1) For the purpose of selecting participants in their
award procedures
(a)
contracting entities having provided rules and
criteria for the exclusion of tenderers or candidates in
accordance with regulation 54(1), (2) or (4) shall exclude
economic operators which comply with such rules and meet
such criteria;
(b) they shall select tenderers and candidates in
accordance with the objective rules and criteria laid down
pursuant to regulation 54;
(c)
in restricted procedures and in negotiated
procedures with a call for competition, they shall where
appropriate reduce in accordance with regulation 54 the number
of candidates selected pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b).
(2) When a call for competition is made by means of a notice
on the existence of a qualification system and for the purpose of
selecting participants in award procedures for the specific contracts
which are the subject of the call for competition, contracting entities
shall
(a)
qualify economic operators in accordance with the
provisions of regulation 53;
(b) apply to such qualified economic operators those
provisions of paragraph 1 that are relevant to restricted or
negotiated procedures.
(3) Contracting entities shall verify that the tenders submitted
by the selected tenderers comply with the rules and requirements
applicable to tenders and award the contract on the basis of the
criteria laid down in regulations 55 and 57.
Section 1
Qualification and qualitative selection
52. (1) When selecting participants for a restricted or Mutual
negotiated procedure, in reaching their decision as to qualification or recognition
concerning
when the criteria and rules are being updated, contracting entities administrative,
technical or
shall not
financial
conditions, and
certificates, tests
(a)
impose administrative, technical or financial
and evidence.
conditions on certain economic operators which would not be
imposed on others;
(b) require tests or evidence which would duplicate
objective evidence already available.
(2) Where they request the production of certificates drawn up
by independent bodies attesting the compliance of the economic
operator with certain quality assurance standards, contracting entities
shall refer to quality assurance systems based on the relevant
European standards series certified by bodies conforming to the
European standards series concerning certification. Contracting
entities shall recognise equivalent certificates from bodies established
in other Member States. They shall also accept other evidence of
equivalent quality assurance measures from economic operators.
(3) For works and service contracts, and only in appropriate
cases, the contracting entities may require, in order to verify the
economic operator's technical abilities, an indication of the
environmental management measures which the economic operator
will be able to apply when carrying out the contract. In such cases,
should the contracting entities require the production of certificates
drawn up by independent bodies attesting the compliance of the
economic operator with certain environmental management
standards, they shall refer to the EMAS or to environmental
management standards based on the relevant European or
international standards certified by bodies conforming to Community
law or the relevant European or international standards concerning
certification.
Contracting entities shall recognise equivalent certificates
from bodies established in other Member States. They shall also
accept other evidence of equivalent environmental management
measures from economic operators.
53. (1) Contracting entities which so wish may establish Qualification
and operate a system of qualification of economic operators. systems.
Contracting entities which establish or operate a system of
qualification shall ensure that economic operators are at all times able
to request qualification.
(2) The system under subregulation (1) may involve different
qualification stages. It shall be operated on the basis of objective
criteria and rules for qualification to be established by the contracting
entity. Where those criteria and rules include technical specifications,
the provisions of regulation 34 shall apply. The criteria and rules may
be updated as required.
(3) The criteria and rules for qualification referred to in
subregulation (2) may include the exclusion criteria listed in
regulation 45 on the terms and conditions set out therein. Where the
contracting entity is a contracting authority within the meaning of
regulation 2(1)(a), those criteria and rules shall include the exclusion
criteria listed in regulation 45(4).
(4) Where the criteria and rules for qualification referred to in
subregulation (2) include requirements relating to the economic and
financial capacity of the economic operator, the latter may where
necessary rely on the capacity of other entities, whatever the legal
nature of the link between itself and those entities. In this case the
economic operator must prove to the contracting entity that these
resources will be available to it throughout the period of the validity
of the qualification system, for example by producing an undertaking
by those entities to that effect. Under the same conditions, a group of
economic operators as referred to in regulation 11 may rely on the
capacity of participants in the group or of other entities.
(5) Where the criteria and rules for qualification referred to in
subregulation (2) include requirements relating to the technical and,
or professional abilities of the economic operator, the latter may
where necessary rely on the capacity of other entities, whatever the
legal nature of the link between itself and those entities. In this case
the economic operator must prove to the contracting entity that those
resources will be available to it throughout the period of the validity
of the qualification system, for example by producing an undertaking
by those entities to make the necessary resources available to the
economic operator.
Under the same conditions, a group of economic operators
referred to in regulation 11 may rely on the abilities of participants in
the group or of other entities.
(6) The criteria and rules for qualification referred to in
subregulation (2) shall be made available to economic operators on
request. The updating of these criteria and rules shall be
communicated to interested economic operators.
Where a contracting entity considers that the qualification
system of certain other entities or bodies meets its requirements, it
shall communicate to interested economic operators the names of
such other entities or bodies.
(7) A written record of qualified economic operators shall be
kept; it may be divided into categories according to the type of
contract for which the qualification is valid.
(8) When establishing or operating a qualification system,
contracting entities shall in particular observe the provisions of
regulation 41(3) concerning notices on the existence of a system of
qualification, of regulation 49(3), (4) and (5) concerning the
information to be delivered to economic operators having applied for
qualification, of regulation 51(2) concerning the selection of
participants when a call for competition is made by means of a notice
on the existence of a qualification system as well as the provisions of
regulation 52 on mutual recognition concerning administrative,
technical or financial conditions, certificates, tests and evidence.
(9) When a call for competition is made by means of a notice
on the existence of a qualification system, tenderers in a restricted
procedure or participants in a negotiated procedure shall be selected
from the qualified candidates in accordance with such a system.
54. (1) Contracting entities which establish selection Criteria for
criteria in an open procedure shall do so in accordance with objective qualitative
selection.
rules and criteria which are available to interested economic
operators.
(2) Contracting entities which select candidates for restricted
or negotiated procedures shall do so according to objective rules and
criteria which they have established and which are available to
interested economic operators.
(3) In restricted or negotiated procedures, the criteria may be
based on the objective need of the contracting entity to reduce the
number of candidates to a level which is justified by the need to
balance the particular characteristics of the procurement procedure
with the resources required to conduct it. The number of candidates
selected shall, however, take account of the need to ensure adequate
competition.
(4) The criteria set out in subregulations (1) and (2) may
include the exclusion criteria listed in regulation 45 of the Public
Contracts Regulations, 2005 under the terms and conditions set out
therein.
Where the contracting entity is a contracting authority
within the meaning of regulation 2(1)(a), the criteria and rules
referred to in subregulations (1) and (2) shall include the exclusion
criteria listed in regulation 45(4).
(5) Where the criteria referred to in subregulations (1) and (2)
include requirements relating to the economic and financial capacity
of the economic operator, the latter may where necessary and for a
particular contract rely on the capacity of other entities, whatever the
legal nature of the link between itself and those entities. In this case
the economic operator shall prove to the contracting entity that the
necessary resources will be available to it, for example by delivering
an undertaking by those entities to that effect. Under the same
conditions, a group of economic operators as referred to in regulation
11 may rely on the capacities of participants in the group or of other
entities.
(6) Where the criteria referred to in subregulations (1) and (2)
include requirements relating to the technical and, or professional
abilities of the economic operator, the latter may where necessary and
for a particular contract rely on the abilities of other entities, whatever
the legal nature of the link between itself and those entities. In this
case the economic operator must prove to the contracting entity that
for the performance of the contract those resources will be available
to it, for example by delivering an undertaking by those entities to
make the necessary resources available to the economic operator.
Under the same conditions, a group of economic operators
as referred to in regulation 11 may rely on the abilities of participants
in the group or of other entities.
Section 2
Award of the contract
55. (1) Without prejudice to any laws prevailing in Malta
on the remuneration of certain services, the criteria on which the
contracting entities shall base the award of contracts shall
(a)
where the contract is awarded on the basis of the
most economically advantageous tender from the point of view
of the contracting entity, be various criteria linked to the
subject-matter of the contract in question, such as delivery or
completion date, running costs, cost-effectiveness, quality,
aesthetic and functional characteristics, environmental
characteristics, technical merit, after-sales service and technical
assistance, commitments with regard to parts, security of
supply, and price or otherwise,
(b)
the lowest price only.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of subregulation (3), in
the case referred to in subregulation (1)(a), the contracting entity shall
specify the relative weighting which it gives to each of the criteria
chosen to determine the most economically advantageous tender.
Those weightings can be expressed by providing for a range with an
appropriate maximum spread. Where, in the opinion of the
contracting entity, weighting is not possible for demonstrable reasons,
the contracting entity shall indicate the criteria in descending order of
importance.
(3) The relative weighting or order of importance shall be
specified, as appropriate, in the notice used as a means of calling for
competition, in the invitation to confirm the interest referred to in
regulation 47(5), in the invitation to tender or to negotiate, or in the
specifications.
56. (1)
Contracting entities may use electronic auctions.
Use of
electronic
auctions.
(2) (a)
In open, restricted or negotiated procedures with a
prior call for competition, the contracting entities may decide that the
award of a contract shall be preceded by an electronic auction when
the contract specifications can be established with precision. In the
same circumstances, an electronic auction may be held on the
opening for competition of contracts to be awarded under the
dynamic purchasing system referred to in regulation 15.
(b) The electronic auction shall be based
(i) either solely on prices when the contract is
awarded to the lowest price,
(ii) or on prices and, or on the new values of the
features of the tenders indicated in the specification, when
the contract is awarded to the most economically
advantageous tender.
(3) Contracting entities which decide to hold an electronic
auction shall state that fact in the notice used as a means of calling for
competition. The specifications shall include, inter alia, the following
details
(a)
the features whose values will be the subject of
electronic auction, provided that such features are quantifiable
and can be expressed in figures or percentages;
(b) any limits on the values which may be submitted, as
they result from the specifications relating to the subject of the
contract;
(c)
the information which will be made available to
tenderers in the course of the electronic auction and, where
appropriate, when it will be made available to them;
(d) the relevant information concerning the electronic
auction process;
(e)
the conditions under which the tenderers will be able
to bid and, in particular, the minimum differences which will,
where appropriate, be required when bidding;
(f)
the relevant information concerning the electronic
equipment used and the arrangements and technical
specifications for connection.
(4) Before proceeding with the electronic auction, contracting
entities shall make a full initial evaluation of the tenders in
accordance with the award criterion or criteria set and with the
weighting fixed for them. All tenderers who have submitted
admissible tenders shall be invited simultaneously by electronic
means to submit new prices and, or new values; the invitation shall
contain all relevant information concerning individual connection to
the electronic equipment being used and shall state the date and time
of the start of the electronic auction. The electronic auction may take
place in a number of successive phases. The electronic auction may
not start sooner than two working days after the date on which
invitations are sent out.
(5) (a)
When the contract is to be awarded on the basis of
the most economically advantageous tender, the invitation shall be
accompanied by the outcome of a full evaluation of the relevant
tender carried out in accordance with the weighting provided for in
regulation 55(2).
(b) The invitation shall also state the mathematical
formula to be used in the electronic auction to determine automatic
re-rankings on the basis of the new prices and, or new values
submitted. That formula shall incorporate the weighting of all the
criteria established to determine the most economically advantageous
tender, as indicated in the notice used as a means of calling for
competition or in the specifications; for that purpose, any ranges
shall, however, be reduced beforehand to a specified value.
(c)
Where variants are authorised, a separate formula
shall be provided for each variant.
(6) Throughout each phase of an electronic auction the
contracting entities shall instantaneously communicate to all
tenderers sufficient information to enable them to ascertain their
relative rankings at any moment. They may also communicate other
information concerning other prices or values submitted, provided
that that is stated in the specifications. They may also at any time
announce the number of participants in that phase of the auction. In
no case, however, may they disclose the identities of the tenderers
during any phase of an electronic auction.
(7) Contracting entities shall close an electronic auction in one
or more of the following manners
(a)
in the invitation to take part in the auction they shall
indicate the date and time fixed in advance;
(b) when they receive no more new prices or new values
which meet the requirements concerning minimum differences.
In that event, the contracting entities shall state in the invitation
to take part in the auction the time which they will allow to
elapse after receiving the last submission before they close the
electronic auction;
(c)
when the number of phases in the auction, fixed in
the invitation to take part in the auction, has been completed.
When the contracting entities have decided to close an
electronic auction in accordance with paragraph (c), possibly in
combination with the arrangements laid down in paragraph (b), the
invitation to take part in the auction shall indicate the timetable for
each phase of the auction.
(8) After closing an electronic auction, the contracting entities
shall award the contract in accordance with regulation 55 on the basis
of the results of the electronic auction.
(9) Contracting entities may not have improper recourse to
electronic auctions nor may they use them in such a way as to
prevent, restrict or distort competition or to change the subject-matter
of the contract, as defined in the notice used as a means of calling for
competition and in the specification.
57. (1) If, for a given contract, tenders appear to be
abnormally low in relation to the goods, works or services, the
contracting entity shall, before it may reject those tenders, request in
writing details of the constituent elements of the tender which it
considers relevant. Those details may relate in particular to
(a)
the economics of the manufacturing process, of the
services provided and of the construction method;
(b) the technical solutions chosen and, or any
exceptionally favourable conditions available to the tenderer for
the supply of the goods or services or for the execution of the
work;
(c)
the originality of the supplies, services or work
proposed by the tenderer;
(d) compliance with the provisions relating to
employment protection and working conditions in force at the
place where the work, service or supply is to be performed;
(e)
the possibility of the tenderer obtaining State aid.
(2) The contracting entity shall verify those constituent
elements by consulting the tenderer, taking account of the evidence
supplied.
(3) Where a contracting entity establishes that a tender is
abnormally low because the tenderer has obtained State aid, the
tender can be rejected on that ground alone only after consultation
with the tenderer where the latter is unable to prove, within a
sufficient time limit fixed by the contracting entity, that the aid in
question was granted legally. Where the contracting entity rejects a
tender in these circumstances, it shall inform the Commission and the
Director of that fact.
Section 3
Tenders comprising products originating in third countries
and relations with those countries
58. (1) This regulation shall apply to tenders covering
products originating in third countries with which the Community has
not concluded, whether multilaterally or bilaterally, an agreement
ensuring comparable and effective access for Community
undertakings to the markets of those third countries. It shall be
without prejudice to the obligations of the Community or of Malta
with respect of third countries.
(2) Any tender submitted for the award of a supply contract
may be rejected where the proportion of the products originating in
third countries, as determined in accordance with Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2913/92 of 12 October 1992 establishing the Community
Customs Code, exceeds fifty per cent of the total value of the
products constituting the tender. For the purposes of this regulation,
software used in telecommunications network equipment shall be
regarded as products.
(3) (a)
Subject to paragraph (b), where two or more tenders
are equivalent in the light of the contract award criteria defined in
regulation 55, preference shall be given to those tenders which may
not be rejected pursuant to subregulation (2). The prices of those
tenders shall be considered equivalent for the purposes of this
regulation, if the price difference does not exceed three per cent.
(b) However, a tender shall not be preferred to another
pursuant to paragraph (a) where its acceptance would oblige the
contracting entity to acquire equipment having technical
characteristics different from those of existing equipment, resulting in
incompatibility, technical difficulties in operation and maintenance,
or disproportionate costs.
(4) For the purposes of this regulation, those third countries to
which the benefit of the provisions of this regulation has been
extended by a Council Decision in accordance with subregulation (1)
shall not be taken into account for determining the proportion,
referred to in subregulation (2), of products originating in third
countries.
59. (1) The Director shall inform the Commission of any Relations with
general difficulties, in law or in fact, encountered and reported by third
as regards
undertakings in securing the award of service contracts in third works, supplies
and service
countries.
contracts.
(2) The Director shall inform the Commission of any
difficulties, in law or in fact, encountered and reported by
undertakings and which are due to the non-observance of the
international labour law provisions listed in Schedule XXV when
such undertakings have tried to secure the award of contracts in third
countries.
(3) This regulation shall be without prejudice to the
commitments of the Community in relation to third countries ensuing
from international agreements on public procurement, particularly
within the framework of the WTO.
TITLE III
RULES GOVERNING SERVICE DESIGN CONTESTS
(1) The rules for the organisation of a design contest
shall be in conformity with subregulation (2) and with regulations 61
and 63 to 66 and shall be made available to those interested in
participating in the contest.
(2) The admission of participants to design contests shall not
be limited
(a)
by reference to the territory or part of the territory of
Malta;
(b) on the ground that, under the laws of Malta, they
would have been required to be either natural or legal persons.
(1) This Title shall apply to design contests organised as
part of a procurement procedure for services whose estimated value,
net of VAT, is equal to or greater than Lm195,000. For the purposes of
this subregulation, "threshold" means the estimated value net of VAT
of the service contract, including any possible prizes and, or
payments to participants.
(2) This Title shall apply to all design contests where the total
amount of contest prizes and payments to participants is equal to or
greater than Lm195,000. For the purposes of this subregulation,
"threshold" means the total amount of the prizes and payments,
including the estimated value net of VAT of the service contract
which might subsequently be concluded under regulation 40(3) if the
contracting entity does not exclude such an award in the contest
notice.
This Title shall not apply to
(a)
contests which are organised in the same cases as
referred to in regulations 20, 21 and 22 for service contracts;
(b) design contests organised for the pursuit, in Malta,
of an activity to which the applicability of regulation 30(1) has
been established by a Commission decision or has been deemed
applicable pursuant to regulation 30(4)(b) or (c), or (5)(c).
(1) (a) Contracting entities which wish to organise a Rules on
design contest shall call for competition by means of a contest notice. advertising
transparency.
Contracting entities which have held a design contest shall make the
results known by means of a notice. The call for competition shall
contain the information referred to Schedule XX and the notice of the
results of a design contest shall contain the information referred to in
Schedule XXI in accordance with the format of standard forms
adopted by the Commission.
(b) The notice of the results of a design contest shall be
forwarded to the Commission and the Director within two months of
the closure of the design contest and under conditions to be laid down
by the Commission. In this connection, the Commission and the
Director shall respect any sensitive commercial aspects which the
contracting entities may point out when forwarding this information,
concerning the number of projects or plans received, the identity of
the economic operators and the prices tendered.
(2) Regulation 44(2) to (8) shall also apply to notices relating
to design contests.
(1) Regulation 48(1), (2) and (4) shall apply to all Means of
communication.
communications relating to contests.
(2) Communications, exchanges and the storage of
information shall be such as to ensure that the integrity and the
confidentiality of all information communicated by the participants in
a contest are preserved and that the jury ascertains the contents of
plans and projects only after the expiry of the time limit for their
submission.
(3) The following rules shall apply to the devices for the
electronic receipt of plans and projects
(a)
the information relating to the specifications which
is necessary for the presentation of plans and projects by
electronic means, including encryption, shall be available to the
parties concerned. In addition, the devices for the electronic
receipt of plans and projects shall comply with the requirements
of Schedule XXVI;
(b) voluntary accreditation schemes aiming at enhanced
levels of certification service provision for such devices may be
introduced.
(1) When organising design contests, contracting
entities shall apply procedures which are adapted to the provisions of
these regulations.
(2) Where design contests are restricted to a limited number of
participants, contracting entities shall establish clear and non-
discriminatory selection criteria. In any event, the number of
candidates invited to participate shall be sufficient to ensure genuine
competition.
(3) The panel shall be composed exclusively of natural
persons who are independent of participants in the contest. Where a
particular professional qualification is required of participants in a
contest, at least a third of the panel members shall have the same
qualification or an equivalent qualification.
(1)
The panel shall be autonomous in its decisions or
opinions.
(2) It shall examine the plans and projects submitted by the
candidates anonymously and solely on the basis of the criteria
indicated in the contest notice.
(3) It shall record its ranking of projects in a report, signed by
its members, made according to the merits of each project, together
with its remarks and any points which may need clarification.
(4) Anonymity must be observed until the panel has reached
its opinion or decision.
(5) Candidates may be invited, if need be, to answer questions
which the panel has recorded in the minutes to clarify any aspects of
the projects.
(6) Complete minutes shall be drawn up of the dialogue
between panel members and candidates.
TITLE IV
STATISTICAL OBLIGATIONS
(1) The Director shall send to the Commission every
year a statistical report concerning the total value, broken down by
Member State and by category of activity to which Schedules I to X
refer, of the contracts awarded below the thresholds set out in
regulation 16 but which would be covered by these regulations were it
not for those thresholds.
(2) As regards the categories of activity to which Schedules II,
III, V, IX and X refer, the Director shall send to the Commission a
statistical report on contracts awarded no later than 31 October of
each year, in accordance with arrangements to be laid down by the
Commission. The statistical report shall contain the information
required to verify the proper application of the Agreement. The
information required under subregulation (1) shall not include
information concerning contracts for the R & D services listed in
category 8 of Schedule XVIII, for telecommunications services listed
in category 5 of Schedule XVIII whose CPV positions are equivalent
to the CPC reference numbers 7524, 7525 and 7526, or for the
services listed in Schedule XIX.
(3) The arrangements under subregulations (1) and (2) shall be
laid down in such a way as to ensure that
(a)
in the interests of administrative simplification,
contracts of lesser value may be excluded, provided that the
usefulness of the statistics is not jeopardised;
(b) the confidential nature of the information provided
is respected.
TITLE V
APPLICATION OF PUBLIC CONTRACTS REGULATIONS
Regulations 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 33 and Parts VII, Application of
VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII and XIV of the Public Contracts Public
Regulations,
Regulations, 2005 shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to these regulations. 2005.
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(1)
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3037/90 of 9 October 1990 on the statistical
classification of economic activities in the European Community (OJ L 293,
24.10.1990, p.1), Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No
761/93 (OJ L 83, 3.4.1993, p.1).
In the event of any difference of interpretation between the CPV and the NACE, the
NACE nomenclature will apply.