How are deadlines established in a tender?

Ok, I release it in the style of someone who has gone through several tenders and the story is already known. Look, the deadlines in a public tender ... That is not a simple procedure, it is the key for anyone to go ready and all have the same opportunities to grab a contract with the government. Where are those deadlines? Well, in the blessed statement, that very long document that almost nobody reads whole but that if you skip, you stay out for a fool. And yes, all that is regulated to the minimum detail so that there is no trap or cardboard.

From the outset, the first term that will care is to present your proposal. That is, how long do you have to assemble your dossier and send it? That depends on how complicated the matter is. If it is to clean offices, they give you two weeks. If it is to build a bridge, then they release a month or more. It is marked by law, it is never so short that you can't prepare it (in theory ...), but they don't let you fall asleep in the laurels.

The deadline for submission ends and now it's time to wait. The evaluation period arrives. This is where officials sit down to look at all the proposals and see who looks best. If there are a thousand proposals or the project is a tremendous mess, they take it easy. But it has to be enough to check everything and do not make fudge, or so we all expect.

When they finally decide who takes the cat to the water, the last section comes: the award period. Here the administration and the winning company are closed fringes, negotiate some detail and sign papers. It is not that it is eternal, but it is not immediate, more if there is any "but" to discuss.

A Gold Council: If you get into a tender and raisins of the deadlines, say goodbye. Not even if your offer is the pump. This is like school, if you deliver late, do not correct the exam. So eye, plan well, that those days fly, and check if the administration changes something at the last minute, which sometimes do it and not know well.

By the way, do not forget the laws that touch the issue. There are national, local rules, sometimes even European if you get international, and skip them is to look for a legal brown. If there is something that does not fit you or not, look for a lawyer or someone who dominates the subject. Better what to lose the opportunity for an absurd detail or, worse, get into a mess for not complying.