Article 136

For contracts with a value not exceeding that referred to in Article 170(1) and without prejudice to Articles 134 and 135, contracting authorities may use a call for expressions of interest to do either of the following: to pre-select candidates to be invited to submit tenders in response to future restricted invitations to tender; to collect a list of vendors to be invited to submit requests to participate or tenders. The list drawn up following a call for expressions of interest shall be valid for the following period: not more than three years from the date on which the notice referred to in point (a) of Article 124(1) is sent to the Publications Office in the case referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article; not more than five years from the date on which the notice referred to in point (a) of Article 124(1) is sent to the Publications Office in the case of vendors’ list referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article. The list referred to in the first subparagraph may include sub-lists. Any interested person may submit an application at any time during the period of validity of the list, with the exception of the last three months of that period. Where a contract is to be awarded, the contracting authority shall invite all candidates or vendors entered on the relevant list or sub-list to do either of the following: to submit a tender in the case referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1; to submit, in case of the list referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1, either of the following: tenders including documents relating to exclusion and selection criteria; documents relating to exclusion and selection criteria and, in a second step, tenders, for those fulfilling these criteria.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.