Any invitation to tender in any form whatsoever or the delivery or availability of tender documents.
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).
The tendering rules contained herein.
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.
The contractor to whom one or many tenders are or may be addressed in any quality whatsoever:
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.
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.
The recipient contractor who has been or is awarded a contract for work for which one or several tenders have been addressed to them.