Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

79.   Lots

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    (1)   Where the splitting up or division of a public procurement contract into a separate lot or segment is financially and technically possible, the procuring entity shall, for the purpose of promoting public procurement under a small and medium sized enterprise, divide the public procurement for the award of the separate part or lot to a different tenderer.

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    (2)   Where a public procurement contract is divided under subsection (1), the tendering document must specify —

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      (a)     the number and the nature of the lot;

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      (b)     the manner in which the tender for one or more lots is submitted, indicating whether separate tenders are submitted for each lot; and

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      (c)     the basis for an award, which is the lowest combination of evaluated tenders.

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    (3)   Where one or more lots have not been awarded, the procuring entity may, in any new public procurement procedures, modify the division of the lots that have not been awarded.

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    (4)   Nothing in this section limits or restricts the procuring entity from awarding all the lots to the same tenderer, if such an award achieves the lowest evaluated tender for the combined lots.