*** Annex IV to the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, as revised by Decision 1/2014 of the ACP-EU Council of Ministers (OJ L196/40, 3.7.2014) 

**** including the Overseas Countries and Territories having special relations with the United Kingdom, as laid down in Part Four and Annex II of the TFEU. 

## 5. Candidature 

All eligible natural and legal persons (as per item 4 above) or groupings of such persons (consortia) may apply. 

A consortium may be a permanent, legally-established grouping or a grouping which has been constituted informally for a specific tender procedure. All partners of a consortium (i.e., the leader and all other partners) are jointly and severally liable to the contracting authority. 

The participation of an ineligible natural or legal person will result in the automatic exclusion of that person. In particular, if that ineligible person belongs to a consortium, the whole consortium will be excluded. 

## 6. Number of applications or tenders 

No more than one application or tender can be submitted by a natural or legal person whatever the form of participation (as an individual legal entity or as leader or partner of a consortium submitting an application/tender). In the event that a natural or legal person submits more than one application or tender, all applications or tenders in which that person has participated will be excluded. 

In case of lots, the candidates or tenderers may submit only one application or tender per lot. Contracts will be awarded lot by lot and each lot will form a separate contract. 

Tenders for parts of a lot will not be considered. Tenderers may not submit a tender for a variant solution in addition to their tender for the works or supplies required in the tender dossier. 

Any tenderer may state in its tender that it would offer a discount in the event that its tender is accepted for more than one lot. 

## 7. Tender guarantee 

Tenderers must provide a tender guarantee of EUR for each lot with the amounts stated below when submitting their tender. This guarantee will be released to unsuccessful tenderers once the tender procedure has been completed and to the successful tenderer[s] upon signature of the contract by all parties. This guarantee will be called upon if the tenderer does not fulfil all obligations stated in its tender. 

Lot number: Lot 1: Amount of tender guarantee (EUR): 4,500.00 

Lot number: Lot 2: Amount of tender guarantee (EUR): 13,000.00 

Lot number: Lot 3: Amount of tender guarantee (EUR): 3,500.00 

Lot number: Lot 4: Amount of tender guarantee (EUR): 1,500.00 

