Article 156. Restricted procedure.

1. In restricted procedures, any economic operator may submit a request to participate in response to a call for competition, providing the information requested by the contracting authority or granting body. The minimum deadline for receiving requests to participate is normally set at no less than thirty days from the date of transmission of the tender notice or the invitation to confirm interest and cannot in any case be less than fifteen days. 2. Only economic operators invited in this sense by the contracting authority or the granting body following the evaluation of the information provided submit an offer. Contracting authorities and granting entities may limit the number of suitable candidates to be invited to participate in the procedure in accordance with Article 70, paragraph 6. The deadline for the receipt of tenders may be set in agreement between the contracting authority or the awarding entity. grantor and all selected candidates, provided that they have an identical deadline to submit their offers. In the absence of an agreement on the deadline for receiving tenders, this shall not be less than ten days from the date of sending the invitation to tender. EFFECTIVE FROM: 1 July 2023