Overview
This regulation sets out the type of costs that must be taken into account by a contracting authority where tenders are evaluated on the basis of life-cycle costs.
Where life-cycle costing is used, this must take into account the costs borne by the contracting authority or other users (e.g. costs of use, maintenance costs, end of life costs), and / or environmental costs (i.e. environmental externalities) linked to the product, service or works (e.g. cost of emissions of greenhouse gases).
In assessing environmental costs, contracting authorities must ensure that the method used is based on objectively verifiable and non-discriminatory criteria, accessible to all interested parties and that the data required can be provided with reasonable effort by suppliers.
Contracting authorities must indicate in the procurement documents the data to be provided by tenderers for the purposes of assessing costs using a life-cycle approach, and the method to determine the life-cycle costs on the basis of the data.