22.6 If it fails to sign and return the contract and any financial guarantee required within 30 days after receipt of notification, the contracting authority may consider the acceptance of the tender to be cancelled without prejudice to the contracting authority’s right to seize the guarantee, claim compensation or pursue any other remedy in respect of such failure, and the successful tenderer will have no claim whatsoever on the contracting authority. 

22.7 The performance guarantee referred to in the general conditions is set at 10% of the amount of the contract and must be presented in the form specified in the annex to the tender dossier. It will be released within 45 days of the issue of the final acceptance certificate by the contracting authority, except for the proportion assigned to after-sales service. 

## 23.Tender guarantee 

The tender guarantee referred to in Article 11 above is set at: 

Lot 1, Ion Chromatograph; EUR 1,500.00 Lot 2, Groundwater borehole observation equipment; EUR 1,540.00 Lot 3, Groundwater monitoring equipment; EUR 1,070.00 Lot 4, IT equipment; EUR 140.00 Lot 5, Gas Chromatograph Triple Quadrapole Mass Spectrometer; EUR 1,800.00 Lot 6, Chemical Standards and Reference Materials; EUR 500.00 Lot 7, Flow Cytometer; EUR 1,500.00 Lot 8, Hydrographic multi-parameter probe; EUR 1,000.00 Lot 9, Autonomous Passive Acoustic Recording System; EUR 700.00 Lot 10, Wave Buoy with Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler; EUR 1,300.00 Lot 11, Tide Gauges equipment; EUR 700.00 Lot 12, Underwater camera with movement sensor; EUR 240.00 Lot 13, Apochromatic Stereo Microscope and ancillary Equipment; EUR 450.00 Lot 14, Carbon Fiber Mounting Pole; EUR 170.00 Lot 15, Titanium /Stainless Steel / multiparameter probe; EUR 170.00 

and must be presented in the form specified in the annex to the tender dossier. It must remain valid for 45 days beyond the period of validity of the tender. Tender guarantees provided by tenderers who have not been selected will be returned together with the information letter that the tenderer has been unsuccessful. The tender guarantee of the successful tenderer will be released on signing of the contract, once the performance guarantee has been submitted. 

## 24.Ethics clauses and code of conduct 

24.1 Absence of conflict of interest 

The tenderer must not be affected by any conflict of interest and must have no equivalent relation in that respect with other tenderers or parties involved in the project. Any attempt by a tenderer to obtain confidential information, enter into unlawful agreements with competitors or influence the evaluation committee or the contracting authority during the process of examining, clarifying, evaluating and comparing tenders will lead to the rejection of its tender and may result in administrative penalties according to the Financial Regulation in force. 

24.2 Respect for human rights as well as environmental legislation and core labour standards 

The tenderer and its staff must comply with human rights and applicable data protection rules. In particular and in accordance with the applicable basic act, tenderers and applicants who have been awarded contracts must comply with the environmental legislation including multilateral environmental agreements, and with the core labour standards as applicable and as 

