An email at 16:40 leaves the procurement office only what remains of the standstill period.
A bidder challenges the evaluation just before the weekend and refers to two attachments. From receipt, the procurement office has only the rest of the standstill period for its response, because the bidder's deadline for going to the public procurement tribunal only starts once the office notifies it that the complaint will not be remedied.
1emailA bidder challenges the evaluation on Friday at 16:40.
2stagesFirst the procurement office's response, then the public procurement tribunal.
2deadlinesThe standstill period from the advance notice keeps running; the deadline for the public procurement tribunal only starts once the office declines to remedy the complaint.
4working days leftAfter the complaint arrives, four working days of the standstill period remain for the response.
On Friday evening, four working days of the standstill period remain, and nobody yet knows what the bidder is relying on. By Monday morning, receipt, the subject of the complaint and both dates are on the table: a 50% faster initial assessment.
The 50% faster initial assessment is this agent's headline figure, taken from its profile. The time, file name and bidder name in the example are fictitious.