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BS ISO 10845-3:2021

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Construction procurement – Standard conditions of tender

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BSI 2021 80
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This document sets out standard conditions of tender which

  1. bind the employer and tenderer to behave in a particular manner,

  2. establish what a tenderer is required to do in order to submit a compliant tender,

  3. make known the evaluation criteria to tenderers, and

  4. establish the manner in which the employer conducts the process of offer and acceptance and provide the necessary feedback to tenderers on the outcomes of the process.

This document is intended for use in procurements relating to goods, services and construction works and disposals other than by auction.

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
7 Foreword
8 Introduction
9 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
11 4 General requirements
4.1 Actions
12 4.2 Tender documents
4.3 Interpretation
4.4 Communication and employer’s agent
4.5 Employer’s right to accept or reject any tender offer
4.6 Procurement procedures
4.6.1 General
13 4.6.2 Competitive negotiation procedure
4.6.3 Proposal procedure using the two-stage tendering system
5 Tenderer’s obligations
5.1 Eligibility
5.1.1 Submit a tender offer
14 5.1.2 Notify the employer
5.2 Cost of tendering
5.3 Checking documents
5.4 Confidentiality and copyright of documents
5.5 Reference documents
5.6 Acknowledging addenda
5.7 Clarification meeting
5.8 Seeking clarification
5.9 Insurance
15 5.10 Pricing the tender offer
5.11 Alterations to documents
5.12 Alternative tender offers
5.13 Tender submissions
5.13.1 General submission requirements
5.13.2 Signatures
16 5.13.3 Tender securities
5.13.4 Inclusion of certificates
5.13.5 Sealing of documents
5.13.6 Employer’s acceptance of tender submissions
5.14 Information and data to be completed in all respects
5.15 Closing time
17 5.16 Tender offer validity
5.16.1 Period of validity
5.16.2 Withdrawal of tenders
5.17 Clarification of tender offer after submission
5.18 Other material
5.19 Inspections, tests and analysis
5.20 Submitting securities, bonds, policies, etc.
5.21 Checking final draft
18 5.22 Returning other tender documents
6 Employer’s undertakings
6.1 Responding to requests from the tenderer
6.1.1 Requests for clarifications
6.1.2 Requests to change qualifying requirements
6.2 Issuing addenda
6.3 Returning late tender offers
6.4 Opening of tender submissions
19 6.5 Two-envelope system
6.6 Non-disclosure
6.7 Grounds for rejection and disqualification
6.8 Test for responsiveness
20 6.9 Arithmetical errors, omission and discrepancies
6.10 Clarification of a tender offer
6.11 Evaluation of tender offers
6.11.1 General
6.11.2 Method 1: financial offer
21 6.11.3 Method 2: financial offer and quality
6.11.4 Method 3: financial offer and preferences
22 6.11.5 Method 4: financial offer, quality and preferences
6.11.6 Decimal places
6.11.7 Scoring financial offers
23 6.11.8 Scoring preferences
6.11.9 Scoring quality
6.12 Insurance provided by the employer
6.13 Acceptance of a tender offer
24 6.14 Preparing contract documents
6.15 Completing adjudicator’s contract
6.16 Notice to successful and unsuccessful tenderers
6.17 Providing copies of the contracts
6.18 Returning of tender securities
6.19 Providing written reasons for actions taken
26 Annex A (informative) Commentary
45 Annex B (informative) Tender data
52 Annex C (informative) Evaluating tender offers
70 Annex D (informative) Example of a tender security
71 Annex E (informative) Evaluation reports
74 Annex F (informative) Impact of different formulae and weightings in the scoring of methods 2, 3 and 4
79 Bibliography
BS ISO 10845-3:2021
$215.11