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# Subject: Open call for tenders for a Framework Contract for IT Services covering ECHA’s Bespoke Applications Sourcing Tiers - 2 $_{LOTs }$(Ref. ECHA/2O2O1666) 

Dear Madam/Sir, 

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), (referred to below as fhe contracting authority) is planning to award the contract resulting from the above procurement procedure. $_{The}$ procurement documents consist of the contract notice, this invitation letter, the draft framework contract and tender specifications with their respective annexes. All documents are available at the following TED e-Tendering websitel: 

https: //etendering.ted. europa. eu/cft/cft-d isplay, htm l?cftld $_{= }$7199 

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) available from the above website2. Tenders submitted in any otherway (e.9. e-mail or by letter) will be disregarded. 

In order to submit a tender using e-Submission, tenderers (each member of the group in the $_{case of a }$joint tender) will need to register in the European Commission’s Participant Register3 

- $_{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 in the PIC-manaoement $_{Quick }$ Guide for Economic Operatorsa. Tenderers already registered in the Participant Register shall reuse their existing PICs when preparing tenders in e-Submission. 

## The time-limit for receipt of tenders is indicated under Heading [V.2.2 of the contract notice where local time shall be understood as Brussels time (UTC+O1:OO). 

A tender received after the time-limit for receipt of tenders will be rejected. The tender reception confirmation provided by e-Submission with the official date and time of receipt of the tender (timestamp) constitutes proof of compliance with the time-limit for receipt of tenders. 

