1) For British candidates or tenderers:
Please be aware that after the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU, the rules of access to EU procurement procedures of economic operators established in third countries will apply to candidates or tenderers established in the United Kingdom depending on the outcome of negotiations. If such access is not provided for by the legal provisions in force, candidates or tenderers from the United Kingdom could be excluded from the procurement procedure.
2) The specifications and additional documents (including questions and answers) will be available at the following web address:
https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=4391.
Interested parties are invited to register via the website. They will then be notified by the online public procurement system of any updates available for this invitation to tender. Parties not registered on the website are requested to consult it regularly. The Commission cannot be held responsible should tenderers not be aware of any additional information on this invitation to tender given on this website.
The site will be updated regularly and it is the responsibility of tenderers to check for any updates and modifications during the tendering period.
3) Submission of samples within the 15 working days following the final date of submission of the tender, as indicated in point 3.4.1.1 of the administrative clauses (Annex II);
4) Executive agencies may be included in the contract as contracting authorities (within a limit of 10 % of the total contract value and for all the executive agencies taken together) if, at the time of publication of this invitation to tender, they were not yet officially set up or in the process of being set up and, consequently, no formal designation could be specified in the invitation to tender documents;
5) This contract is the subject of a joint procedure in which 34 other Institutions and Agencies take part as contracting authorities (see invitation to tender of the call for tenders);
6) For further information on participating in invitations to tender and on the sequence of procedures for public procurement at the OIB, please consult the 'Guide for tenderers' and the brochure 'Doing business with the European Commission', accessible via the link: http://ec.europa.eu/oib/procurement_fr.cfm