Europol Public Information • technical and financial tenders against the pre-defined award criteria. • compliance with the minimum requirements;  • capacity of the candidate/tenderer to perform the contract against the selection criteria;  6. Award and signature of the contract with the successful tenderer  6.1.  Award and notification of the outcomes of the procurement procedure  General Guidance on Europol Procurement Procedures  Page  16  of  20 Once the award notice is published in the Official Journal of the European Union unsuccessful  tenderers may submit a request for a debriefing meeting. However, Europol reserves the right to  accept or refuse such requests and schedule the meeting date on the basis of the particular  circumstances of each individual procurement procedure or of the existing workload. Europol would like to stress that it is not free to disclose any information where such disclosure  would hinder the application of the law, be contrary to public interest, harm the legitimate  business interests of public or private undertakings or distort fair competition.  After the closing of the tendering procedure and in order to improve the quality of tenders and  the quality of our procedures, Europol may hold upon request from the unsuccessful tenderers an  optional debriefing meeting of its representatives with unsuccessful tenderers, aimed at  exchanging feedback and suggestions for improvement in view of future procurement  procedures. For high value contracts equal to or above the Directive threshold (i.e. 139.000 € for services and  supplies), the contract will not be signed for 10 days (standstill period), counting from the day  after simultaneous dispatch of the notification by e-mail to all tenderers (successful and  unsuccessful). Only after the end of this "standstill period" Europol may sign the contract.  The notification will be sent to the e-mail address provided in the request to participate/ tender.  The same e-mail address will be used by the contracting authority for all other communications  with the candidate/ tenderer. It is the candidate/tenderer’s responsibility to provide a valid e- mail address together with contact details in the request to participate/ tender and to check this  e-mail address regularly.  Candidates/tenderers will be simultaneously and individually notified by e-mail as soon as  possible about the decision taken about their request to participate / tender, including the  grounds for any decision to not award the contract or to cancel the procedure.  Following the finalisation of the evaluation, a decision will be taken about the selection of  candidates/award of the contract. For the purposes of the evaluation related to exclusion and selection criteria the contracting  authority may also refer to publicly available information, in particular evidence that it can access  on a national database free of charge.  The evaluation will be based on the information and evidence contained in the tenders and, if  applicable, on additional information and evidence provided at the request of the contracting  authority during the procedure. If any of the declarations or information provided proves to be  false, the contracting authority may impose administrative sanctions (exclusion or financial  penalties) on the entity providing the false declarations/information.  A request to participate/tender failing to pass a given category of criteria will not be evaluated  under the other categories and the candidate/tenderer will be informed of the ground for  rejection without being given feedback on the non-assessed content of the tender. 