The Concession Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2016

Electronic availability of concession documents

36.—(1) A contracting entity must, by means of the internet, offer unrestricted and full direct access free of charge to the concession documents from the date of the publication in the Official Journal of a concession notice or, where the concession notice does not include the invitation to submit tenders, from the date on which the invitation to submit tenders was sent.

(2) The text of the concession notice or of the invitation to submit tenders must specify the internet address at which the concession documents are accessible.

(3) Paragraph (4) applies if, in duly justified circumstances due to—

(a) exceptional security reasons;

(b) technical reasons; or

(c) the particularly sensitive nature of commercial information requiring a very high level of protection,

unrestricted and full direct access free of charge to certain concession documents cannot be offered by means of the internet.

(4) In those circumstances a contracting entity must indicate in the notice or the invitation to submit a tender that the concession documents concerned will be transmitted by means other than the internet and the time limit for the receipt of tenders shall be prolonged.

(5) Provided that it has been requested in good time, a contracting entity must supply to all applicants or tenderers taking part in the procurement for the award of a concession contract additional information relating to the concession documents not later than 6 days before the deadline fixed for the receipt of tenders.