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Executive Director 

# INVITATION TO TENDER 

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## Title: “ Provision of support to EFSA in the remit of scientific data management activities and processes ” 

## Reference: OC/EFSA/DATA/2021/01 

## Procurement procedure: Open call 

Dear Madam/Sir, 

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) (referred to below as the contracting authority ) is planning to award the contract(s) resulting from this procurement procedure. The procurement documents consist of the contract notice, this invitation letter, the draft contract(s) and tender specifications with their respective annexes. All documents are available in TED e-Tendering 1  only. 

Economic operators interested in this contract are invited to submit a tender in one of the official languages of the European Union. 

## 1. Submission of tenders. 

Tenders must be submitted exclusively via the electronic submission system (e- Submission) 2  accessible from the corresponding call for tender in TED e-Tendering or the Funding and Tenders Opportunities portal (F&T portal) 3 . Tenders submitted in any other way (e.g. e-mail or by letter) will be disregarded. 

In order to submit a tender using e-Submission, economic operators (each member of the group in the case of a joint tender) will need to register in the European Commission's Participant Register - an online register of organisations participating in EU calls for tenders or proposals. On registering each organisation obtains a Participant Identification Code (PIC, 9-digit number) which acts as its unique identifier in the above register. Instructions on how to create a PIC can be found on this page. Economic operators already registered in the Participant Register shall reuse their existing PICs when preparing tenders in e- Submission. 

