A. INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERERS  to the rejection of their tender and to their exclusion from EIB tender procedures and contracts.  The Financial offer must be presented in Euro using the templates included in the fee-based  version of the Financial offer (see part C of this tender dossier). It must include: The estimated budget for incidental expenditure and expenditure verification is to be filled in  according to the amount indicated in the Terms of Reference.  Tenderers are reminded that the maximum budget available for this contract, as stated in the  contract notice, is  EUR 650.000 . Payments under this contract will be made in the currency of  the tender. The Consultant is expected to quote the price net of any taxes. Tenderers  are not  authorised to tender for a variant in addition to this tender.  Tenderers are bound by their tenders for 180 days after the deadline for submitting tenders. The Contracting Authority may ask the tenderers to extend the period for a specific number of  days, as deemed necessary.  The tender dossier should be clear enough to avoid tenderers having to request additional  information during the procedure. Tenderers may submit questions in writing  by the deadline specified in section 3 above exclusively via the eTendering platform. Requests not submitted via the eTendering platform will  not be considered. The corresponding link is indicated in the Contract Notice, section I.3,  “Communication”. The eTendering platform contains a questions/answers section permitting  tenderers to send questions within the deadline specified above and consult the Contracting  Authority’s replies. The Contracting Authority has no obligation to provide clarification to requests transmitted after  this date. The Contracting Authority will publish its replies on this platform at least 6 calendar days before  the deadline for submission of tenders. No information meeting and no site visit is foreseen. Visits by individual prospective tenderers  during the tender period cannot be organised by the Contracting Authority or the Promoter.  Tenders must be submitted electronically only, in line with the following instructions:  Before the deadline mentioned in section 3 “timetable”, tenderers must express their intention to  Page 7 of 12 AA-000799-002_TAINSTRUCT  11. Submission of tenders  10. Additional information before the deadline for submitting tenders  9.  Period during which tenders are binding  8.  Variant solutions  7.2.  Financial offer  To complete the spreadsheet :  4)  Enter the provision for expenditure verification given in the Terms of Reference in the first  worksheet (‘Budget breakdown’).  3)  Enter the provision for incidental expenditure given in the Terms of Reference in the first  worksheet (‘Budget breakdown’)  2)  Enter the estimated numbers of working days for each category of expert during the period  of implementation of the tasks in the second worksheet (‘Working days’)  1)  Enter the fee rates for each category of expert in the first worksheet (‘Budget breakdown’)  -  Working days  -  Budget breakdown 