13. Up to the point of signature, EMSA may cancel the award procedure, without the candidates or tenderers being entitled to claim any compensation. This decision must be substantiated and the candidates or tenderers notified. 

14. Once EMSA has opened the tender, the document shall become the property of EMSA and it shall be treated confidentially. 

15. Tenderers will be informed of the outcome of this procurement procedure by email. It is the tenderers’ responsibility to provide a valid e-mail address together with their contact details in their tender offer and to check this e-mail address regularly. 

16. If processing a reply to the invitation to tender involves the recording and processing of personal data (such as name, address and CV), the data will be processed in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council$^{1}$. Unless indicated otherwise, the replies to tenderers, and any personal data requested, shall be used to evaluate the tender in accordance with the specifications of the invitation to tender and will be processed solely for that purpose by the Head of Unit Operations Support. 

17. Details concerning the processing of personal data are contained in the privacy statement “Information on personal data protection in procurement procedures” available at: http://www.emsa.europa.eu/about/personal-data-protection.html 

18. Personal data may be registered in the Early Detection and Exclusion System (EDES) if a tenderer is deemed to be in one of the situations detailed in Article 136 of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council$^{2}$. For more information, see the Privacy Statement available at http://ec.europa.eu/budget/library/explained/management/protecting/privacy_statement_edes_en.pdf. 

19. In addition to economic operators established in the Member States of the Union, only economic operators from the following countries are eligible to participate in the present procurement procedure: Albania, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

20. For British tenderers - please be aware that after the UK's withdrawal from the EU, the rules of access to EU procurement procedures of economic operators established in third countries will apply to candidates or tenderers from the UK depending on the outcome of the negotiations. In case such access is not provided by legal provisions in force candidates or tenderers from the UK could be rejected from the procurement procedure. 

Maja Markovčić Kostelac 

Executive Director 

