Article 165. Invitations to candidates.

1. In restricted procedures, in competitive dialogues, in innovation partnerships, in negotiated procedures with calls for tenders, the contracting authorities or granting bodies invite, simultaneously and in writing, the selected candidates to present their respective offers, to participate to dialogue or negotiate. With the same methods, the contracting authorities or the granting bodies invite, in the case of a call for tenders through an indicative periodic notice, the economic operators who have already expressed interest to confirm it. 2. The invitations indicate the digital address to which they are the tender documents and the information indicated in Annex II.9, Part II have been made directly available. If these documents are not available free of charge, unlimited and directly, for the reasons referred to in Article 88 and are not available by other means, the invitations shall be accompanied by a hyperlink to the tender documents. EFFECTIVE FROM: 1st July 2023