AECHA EUROPEAN  CHEMICALS  AGENCY Subject:  Open call  for  tenders for  a  Framework  Contract  for IT  Services covering ECHA’s Bespoke Applications Sourcing  Tiers  -  2  $_{LOTs }$(Ref. ECHA/2O2O1666) Dear Madam/Sir, The European  Chemicals Agency  (ECHA), (referred  to below as fhe contracting authority) is planning  to award the contract resulting from  the above  procurement procedure. $_{The}$ procurement  documents  consist of the contract notice, this invitation letter, the  draft  framework contract  and tender specifications with  their  respective  annexes.  All  documents are available at the following TED  e-Tendering  websitel: https:  //etendering.ted.  europa. eu/cft/cft-d isplay, htm l?cftld $_{= }$7199 Economic  operators interested in this  contract are invited to submit a tender in one of the official languages  of the  European  Union. Tenders must  be submitted exclusively via  the electronic submission system  (e-Submission) available from  the above  website2.  Tenders submitted in any  otherway  (e.9.  e-mail or by  letter) will be disregarded. A  tender  received  after  the time-limit  for receipt  of tenders will be rejected. The  tender  reception confirmation  provided  by e-Submission with  the official date and time of  receipt  of the tender (timestamp)  constitutes  proof  of compliance with  the  time-limit for receipt  of tenders. $^{1 }$Subscription to  the call  for  tender at the above link allows interested economic operators to receive  e-mail  notifications when new information  or documents  are  published.  Subscription  is free  of charge and does  not  involve any commitment to submit a tender. $^{2 }$For  detailed  instructions  on how to  submit a tender  please  consult the e-Submission  Quick  Guide available at: httos://webgate.ec.eurooa.eu/esubmission/assets/documents/manual/quickGuide  en.odf. In  case  of  technical problems, please  contact the e-Submission Helpdesk  (see  contact  details in  the  Quick  Guide) as soon as  possible. $^{3 }$http://ec.eurooa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html $^{4 }$httos://weboate.ec.europa.eu/supplier  portal $_{toolbox/quickGuide/SP }$ quickGuide  en.pdf Telakkakatu 6, P.O. Box 400, FI-00121 Helsinki, Finland  I  Tel. +358  $^{9 686180 }$| Fax  +358  9 68618210  |  echa,europa.eu 1. Submission of tenders. The  time-limit for receipt  of  tenders is indicated  under  Heading [V.2.2  of the contract notice where local  time shall be understood  as  Brussels  time  (UTC+O1:OO). In order to submit a  tender using e-Submission, tenderers  (each  member of  the  group  in  the $_{case of a }$joint tender) will need to register in  the  European  Commission’s Participant Register3 - $_{an online register of }$$_{organisations }$ participating  in EU calls for tenders or  proposals. $_{On}$ registering  each organisation obtains a Participant Identification  Code  (PIC,  9-digit  number) which acts as its unique identifier  in the above register, Instructions on how  to create a  PIC  can be  found in  the PIC-manaoement $_{Quick }$ Guide for Economic Operatorsa. Tenderers already registered  in the Participant Register  shall  reuse  their existing PICs when  preparing  tenders  in e-Submission. Invitation  to tender 1  (s) D(2020)14ss Helsinki,  - $_{0. }$$_{10. }$ 2020 