18.  EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING TENDERS 19.  LATE TENDERS  20.  ALTERING AND WITHDRAWING TENDERS  OPENING AND EVALUATING TENDERS  21.  OPENING TENDERS  (c) where applicable, the number of the lot(s) tendered for;  (d) the words ‘Not to be opened before the tender opening session’ in the language of the  tender dossier and "İhale açılış oturumundan önce açılamaz" in Turkish.  (e) the name of the tenderer.  19.1  All tenders submitted after the deadline for submission specified in the contract notice or these  instructions will be kept by the contracting authority. The guarantees will be returned to the  tenderers. See also last paragraph of point 17.3 above.  19.2  No liability can be accepted for late delivery of tenders. Late tenders will be rejected and will not  be evaluated.  20.1 Tenderers may alter or withdraw their tenders by written notification prior to the above deadline.  No tender may be altered after the deadline for submission. Withdrawals must be unconditional  and will end all participation in the tender procedure.  20.2  Any notification of alteration or withdrawal must be prepared and submitted in accordance with  Clause 17, and the envelope must be marked ‘alteration’ or ‘withdrawal’, as appropriate.  20.3 Withdrawal of a tender in the period between the deadline for submission and the date of expiry  of the validity of the tender will result in forfeiture of the tender security.  21.1  The purpose of opening and examining tenders is to check whether the tenders are complete,  whether the requisite tender securities have been furnished, whether the required documents are  included and whether the tenders are generally in order.  21.2  Tenders will be opened in public session on the date and venue specified in the contract notice by  the appointed committee. The committee will draw up minutes of the meeting, which must be  available to tenderers on request.  21.3  At the tender opening session, the tenderers’ names, the tender prices, any discounts offered,  written notifications of alteration and withdrawal, the presence of the tender security (if required)  In the case that at the date of the opening session some tenders have not been delivered to the  contracting authority but their representatives can show evidence that they have been sent on  time, the contracting authority will allow them to participate in the first opening session and  inform all representatives of the tenderers that a second opening session will be organised.  Page 17 of 23  August 2020 d4b_itt_en  The contracting authority may, on its own discretion, extend the deadline for submitting tenders by  issuing an amendment in accordance with Clause 9. In such cases, all rights and obligations of the  contracting authority and the tenderer regarding the original date specified in the contract notice  will be subject to the new date. 