Examples of using Contracting entities may in English and their translations into Finnish
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Contracting entities may use a procedure without prior call for competition in the following cases.
The change is that it has been clarified that several contracting entities may be party to a framework agreement.
Contracting entities may require that environmental management measures or schemes are to be applied during the performance of a contract. .
The third paragraph of the Article provides that contracting entities may require specific conditions concerning performance of the contract68.
Contracting entities may regard a framework agreement as a contract within the meaning of Article 1(2) and award it in accordance with this Directive.
In this connection, the Commission 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.
Contracting entities may choose any of the procedures described in Article 1(8), provided that, subject to paragraph 3, a call for competition has been made in accordance with Article 41.
For public works and service contracts, andin appropriate cases only, contracting entities may require an indication of the environmental management measures which the economic operator will be able to take during performance of the contract. .
Contracting entities may, in particular, 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.
If they are made by fax, the contracting entities may require that they be confirmed by letter or by electronic means before the end of the period laid down in Article 44.
Contracting entities may lay down special conditions relating to the performance of a contract, provided such conditions are compatible with Community law and indicated in the contract notice used as a means of calling for competition or in the contract documents.
The 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 of the manufacturer or a test report from a recognised body.
This Directive therefore clarifies how the contracting entities may contribute to the protection of the environment and the promotion of sustainable development, whilst ensuring that the contracting entities are in a position to obtain the best value for money for their contracts. .
Contracting entities may reject tenders which are abnormally low owing to the receipt of State aid only if they have consulted the tenderer and if the tenderer has been unable to show, within a reasonable period set by the contracting entity, that the aid in question has been notified to the Commission pursuant to Article 88(3) of the Treaty and has received the Commission's approval.
It is therefore foreseen that contracting entities may apply the selection criteria provided for in Directive[2004/18/EC] and that, where they do, they are then obliged to apply the provisions concerning notably the ceiling to requirements on minimum turnover as well as on self-certification.
Simplification of information obligations: It is therefore foreseen that contracting entities may apply the selection criteria provided for in the proposed Directive on public procurement and that, where they do, they are then obliged to apply the provisions concerning notably the ceiling to requirements on minimum turnover as well as the provisions on in particular self-certification.
However, in restricted or negotiated procedures, contracting entities may, in certain exceptional cases, namely where the nature of the contract does not allow the relative weighting of each criterion to be established from the start of the procedure, specify this relative weighting only in the contract documents or in the invitation to tender, i.e. at all events before the tenders are drawn up and submitted.
In the specifications, the contracting entity may ask the tenderer to indicate in his tender any share of the contract which he may intend to subcontract to third parties and any designated sub‑contractors.
In the case of restricted procedures, only candidates invited by the contracting entity may submit tenders;
Therefore, paragraph 6 also states that a contracting entity may not disregard a tender which complies with European or international standards on the grounds that the standard would not satisfy the required performance, except where the specification is inappropriate(incompatibility of the equipment, for example) or if the specification does not deal with the same requirement.
As regards contracting entities, which may be SMEs, e.g. in the bus transport sector, the production of electricity or the distribution of water, the proposed amendment to the definition of special or exclusive rights may have the effect of exempting them from obligations imposed by the current Directive.