A tenderer who chooses to do so must notify the BSDQ, by indicating this on their tendering form, not to make their tender available to the recipient contractors if it is the only one. In this case, when the tally of tenders filed for a given project reveals that, for the identified regulated specialty, the tenderer is the only one to have filed a tender, the BSDQ does not make this tender available and
notifies the tenderer, according to the procedure established for the use of the TES.
Unless a tenderer has notified the BSDQ in accordance with the preceding paragraph, a unique tender is made available according to the usual procedure.
The BSDQ is released from any responsibility for determining whether a tender is unique when the information provided by the tenderer and contained in their tender, to which the BSDQ has access immediately after the closing time for the filing of tender to the BSDQ, is insufficient, incomplete, or erroneous.
As soon as the tenders are made available, the recipient contractors are informed, according to the procedure established by the BSDQ for the use of the TES, of the unique status or otherwise of a tender made available to them.
Notwithstanding the first two paragraphs of this Section, a tender that becomes unique because of the exercise of the right of withdrawal shall be made available by the BSDQ in accordance with the usual procedure. The tenderer shall then be informed of this only by consulting the compilation drawn up subsequently, in accordance with Section H-2 of this Code.