Overview
This regulation allows contracting authorities to award a contract in the form of separate lots; provided that the contract notice indicates whether tenders may be submitted for one, for several, or for all of the lots.
When designing the procurement, a contracting authority may decide to limit the number of lots that may be awarded to one bidder, provided that the maximum number of lots per bidder is stated in the contract notice. In such circumstances, the procurement documents must explain how lots will be awarded where the application of the award criteria would result in one bidder being awarded more lots than the maximum number.
Where the same bidder is awarded multiple lots, contracting authorities may award contracts combining some or all of the lots provided that the possibility of doing so has been set out in the procurement documents.
To the extent that a contracting authority decides not to award a contract in the form of several lots, it must explain the reasons for this decision in either the procurement documents or in the report required as per regulation 84 PCR 2015 (reporting and documentation requirements).