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*The detailed weighting of each elements in the award criteria above can be found in Annex 8. 

Therefore, it is essential that the Questionnaire encompasses all the information needed to evaluate the quality of their offer in light of the award criteria mentioned above. 

## Tenders scoring less than 60 % in the overall points, or less than 50% in the points awarded for a single criterion will be excluded from the rest of the assessment procedure. 

## The assessment basis for the Award Criteria (AW): 

The assessment basis for AW 1, AW2 and AW3 is the  Questionnaire  (see Annex 7) and the testing of the tenderer’s database , as follows: 

a) AW 1:  The Agency will assess the technical offer of the tenderer on the basis of the answers provided in the Questionnaire. The assessment of the Agency will be complemented with the testing of the database to verify the content and accuracy of the information provided in the Questionnaire. 

b) AW 2:  The Agency will assess the technical offer of the tenderer on the basis of the answers provided in the Questionnaire. The assessment of Agency will be complemented with the testing of the database to verify the presentation, functionality and user friendliness of the database. 

c) AW 3:  The Agency will assess the technical offer of the tenderer on the basis of the answers provided in the Questionnaire on how the tenderer intends to organise those services. 

## In addition, tenderers must provide full access to the proposed live system (at no cost for the Agency) for a limited number of maximum 3 persons and period of minimum two weeks (i.e starting immediately after the opening session) to allow the Agency to access the database and test and assess the technical offer. Tenders not providing such access to test the database may be rejected. 

## 3.5. Award (ranking of tenders) 

Tenders shall be ranked according to the best price-quality ratio in accordance with the formula below: 

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