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EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE 

JRC.C - Energy, Transport and Climate (Petten) Energy Storage 

Petten, date 

# Subject: Supply of one low temperature water electrolysis test station equipment including warranty and associated maintenance services JRC/PTT/2021/CPN/0763 

Dear Madam/Sir, 

The European Commission, Directorate-General for Joint Research Centre, referred to below as the 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 contract and tender specifications with their respective annexes. All documents are available at the following TED eTendering website$^{1}$: 

https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=8412 

This contract will be awarded in two steps. As a first step, if economic operators are interested in this contract, they are invited to submit a request to participate in one of the official languages of the European Union. In a second step, only selected candidates will be invited to submit a tender. Any tender received from a legal or natural person not invited to tender will be rejected. 

## 1. Submission of requests to participate and tenders. 

Economic operators must submit requests to participate and tenders exclusively by email to jrc-ptt-procurement@ec.europa.eu. 

The time-limit for receipt of requests to participate is indicated under Heading IV.2.2 of the contract notice where local time shall be understood as local time at the contracting authority's location (the location indicated under Heading I.1 of the contract notice). The time-limit for receipt of tenders will be indicated in the above TED eTendering website when the selected candidates are invited to submit a tender. 

Candidates or tenderers must ensure that their submitted requests to participate or tenders contain all the information and documents required by the contracting authority at the time of submission as set out in the procurement documents. 

