The Code

Chapter A - Articles A-1 to A-7

The Tendering Code

Chapter B – Conditions of application

Chapter F - Tender withdrawal

Chapter G - Procedure for electronically making available and taking possession of tenders

Chapter H - Access to tenders by the BSDQ and tabulation

Chapter K - Contractor's liability

Chapter L - Complaints

List of agreements that amended the Tendering Code since october 29, 1996

It should be noted that, for interpretation purposes, the French text shall prevail over the English, the latter being a translation of the French original. 

A-1 CALL FOR TENDERS

Any invitation to tender in any form whatsoever or the delivery or availability of tender documents.

A-2 BSDQ

The Bureau des soumissions déposées du Québec, an organisation made up of the Association de la construction du Québec (ACQ), the Corporation des maîtres électriciens du Québec (CMEQ) and the Corporation des maîtres mécaniciens en tuyauterie du Québec (CMMTQ).

A-3 REPEALED SECTION

A-4 CODE

The tendering rules contained herein.

A-5 TENDERING DOCUMENTS

Invitations to tender, notices to tenderers, calls for tenders, plans, drawings, specifications, administrative and technical clauses, general and specific clauses, security and surety bond documents, addenda, tender forms, price schedules, instructions to tenderers, and all other documents issued by the project owner or their representative and the BSDQ establishing the conditions required for the submission of a tender.

A-6 RECIPIENT CONTRACTOR

The contractor to whom one or many tenders are or may be addressed in any quality whatsoever:

  1. for the purpose of a tender that they will themselves address to the project owner, or,
  2. for the purpose of performing work covered by a tender that they have already addressed to the project owner, or
  3. for the purpose of performing work covered by a contract that they have already entered with the project owner.

Presumptions:

Any person, other than the project owner, who holds a contractor’s licence and to whom tenders must be addressed is presumed to be a recipient contractor.

Any person, other than the project owner, who holds a contractor’s licence and to whom tenders must be addressed is deemed to be a recipient contractor if the tenders must be addressed to them with a view to the conclusion of a contract between them and the successful tenderer.

A-6.1 RECIPIENT CONTRACTOR FOR A SUB-FILE

When a sub-file is opened by the BSDQ for a registered project, the term “recipient contractor” used also means the tendering contractor to whom one or more tenders are, or may be, addressed for the purposes of a tender that tendering contractor will file themselves, through the BSDQ, to a recipient contractor.

A-7 SUCCESSFUL RECIPIENT CONTRACTOR

The recipient contractor who has been or is awarded a contract for work for which one or several tenders have been addressed to them.

 
 
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