Organize the opening of bids. Once the opening is made, the Procurement Officer will give the Technical Officer access to the bids and the opening table in CDS. It may take up to one hour for access to be granted.

Warnings: 
-    Only the Procurement Officer is permitted to communicate with bidders until the contract has been placed. The contents of the bids shall be kept strictly confidential, even after order placement. In case of doubt, the Technical Officer should ask advice to the Procurement Officer. 
-    If non-CERN personnel require access to the bids (e.g. members of institutions collaborating in Experiments taking place on the CERN site) they should first sign a Declaration of confidentiality and of absence of conflict of interests.

After the opening of the bids (or the technical opening in case of a BVFM adjudication), review the (technical) bids to ensure they are compliant to the technical specification including the delivery schedule. Inform the Procurement Officer of any sections of the bid that require further clarification.

After the opening of the bids, review the bids to ensure they are compliant with the commercial and contractual requirements. Inform the Technical Officer of any sections of the bid that require further clarification.

Contact bidders to make any technical and commercial clarifications necessary to determine if the bids are technically compliant and to negotiate the price.

Warning: Once the bids have been opened, no bid sent after the closing date coming from a bidder other than the lowest compliant bidder can be taken into account. If, following clarifications, a bidder submits a bid with a higher price, that bidder is automatically disqualified from the IT.