Article 16

1. A call for competition may be made: (a)by means of a notice drawn up in accordance with Annex XII A, B or C; or (b)by means of a periodic indicative notice drawn up in accordance with Annex XIV; or (c)by means of a notice on the existence of a qualification system drawn up in accordance with Annex XIII. 2. When a call for competition is made by means of a periodic indicative notice: (a)the notice must refer specifically to the supplies or works which will be the subject of the contract to be awarded; (b)the notice must indicate that the contract will be awarded by restricted or negotiated procedure without further publication of a notice of a call for competition and invite interested undertakings to express their interest in writing; (c)contracting entities shall subsequently invite all candidates to confirm their interest on the basis of detailed information on the contract concerned before beginning the selection of tenderers or participants in negotiations. 3. When a call for competition is made by means of a notice on the existence of a qualification system, tenderers in a restricted procedure or participants in a negotiated procedure shall be selected from the qualified candidates in accordance with such a system. 4. The notices referred to in this Article shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-31 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.