Article 706. Review and Evaluation of Proposals by Participants of Two-Stage Public Procurements

After the deadline for submitting proposals in the first stage expires, the state customer shall review and evaluate the proposals. In this case, participants who have submitted the most acceptable proposals based on the technical and operational characteristics according to the technical parameters provided for in the procurement documents shall be considered to have successfully passed the first stage.

The second stage of the public procurements shall be carried out if proposals from at least two participants who have passed the first stage are available.

During the preparation for conducting the second stage, the state customer shall re-examine and improve its initial requirements in accordance with the received preliminary proposals, provided that the subject of the public procurement is not permitted to be changed.

The procurement documents, as amended by the state customer, shall be sent to the participants who have successfully passed the first stage of the two-stage public procurements within a period not exceeding twenty working days, and they shall be invited to participate in the procurement by submitting their final proposals.

Proposals shall be evaluated based on varying degrees of technical advantages, aspects of economic stability, including life cycle costs. The final evaluation shall be carried out by the state customer in the manner indicated in the procurement documents.

The deadline for reviewing and evaluating the proposals of the participants of the two-stage public procurements cannot exceed twenty working days from the moment the submission of proposals for each stage is completed.

According to the results of the review of proposals, the two-stage public procurements shall be considered not to have taken place if the procurement commission has rejected all proposals in the second stage.