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## PART 2  EVALUATION - HOW WILL YOUR OFFER BE ASSESSED? 

In case you apply as a group of economic operators in a joint offer or if your offer envisages the use of subcontractors, please refer to the EFSA Guidance for tenderers . 

## 2.1 OPENING OFFERS 

The aim of the public opening session is to check whether the offer received was dispatched by the deadline for tender receipt and that the tenders are electronically protected until the official opening. 

## 2.2 ORDER OF EVALUATION 

Tenderers should note that the content of their offers will be assessed in the following pre- defined order: Exclusion criteria (Access to EU Market); Selection criteria (Technical & Professional capacity); Compliance with tender specifications; Award Criteria (Quality and Price). 

Following the above assessment and identification of the winning tender, the following will be assessed only for the tenderer proposed for contract award: Selection criteria (Professional Conflict of Interest –  Institutional and Individual Declarations of Interest for the Account manager, back-up Account Manager and Project Managers); Exclusion criteria (Declaration on Honour on exclusion criteria); Selection criteria (Declaration on Honour on selection criteria); Selection criteria (Economic & Financial capacity). 

Evidence under sections 2.3 and 2.4 does not have to be submitted to EFSA if it has already been submitted in response to a previous EFSA call. In such case the evidence must be exactly the same as requested in these tender specifications and not older than 12 months. 

Please specify the reference of the EFSA call for tenders under which you have already submitted the evidence to EFSA if you chose to rely on such evidence. 

## 2.3 GROUNDS FOR EXCLUSION 

## Eligibility –  access to EU Market 

Only offers from tenderers established in eligible countries will be allowed to the next step of the evaluation. Please refer to the EFSA Guidance for tenderers  for further details. 

## Evidence requested in your offer: 

Tenderers must submit the Administrative data forms (including LEF and BAF) available here. 

## Exclusion 

Tenderers must not be in one of the exclusion situations listed in article 136 of the Financial Regulation, explained in the EFSA Guidance for tenderers . 

## Evidence requested in your offer: 

Tenderers must declare that they are not in one of the exclusion situations by providing a signed and dated Declaration on Honour on exclusion criteria, available here. In case of a joint offer from a group of economic operators, or in case of subcontracting, such declaration should be submitted for each member of the group and for each identified subcontractor. 

