Regulations for Evaluation of the Most Advantageous Tender Article 21

Where negotiations are conducted pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article 56 and Article 57, all the tenderers satisfying the requirements set out in the tender documentation shall be invited for separate negotiations. Furthermore, those tenderers participating in the negotiations shall be given an opportunity to modify, according to negotiation results, the part of their tenders relevant to the items under negotiation, and to re-submit their tenders within a fixed time period. The same shall apply if the price will require adjustment in accordance with the items under negotiation.An entity shall conduct a comprehensive evaluation once more on the re-submitted tenders referred to in the preceding paragraph. However, those items in the re-submitted tenders that are irrelevant to or not affected by the negotiations shall not be evaluated, and in which case, the content previously submitted shall be based.The members of the evaluation committee that failed to attend the first comprehensive evaluation are prohibited from participating in the second round. The foregoing shall also apply to the third comprehensive evaluation.In conducting the second comprehensive evaluation, the evaluation committee shall reevaluate the adjusted items after negotiation. The scores or rankings of adjusted and unadjusted items shall be summed to select the most advantageous tender. The foregoing shall also apply to the third comprehensive evaluation.