General Administrative and Submission Clauses Appendix I: e-Submission application guide  I. How to Submit your Tender in e-Submission   How to get technical support  Important advices and information, and   Test call for tenders,  Step-by-step guide to help you submit your tender,   Technical requirements to use e-Submission,  3 For detailed instructions on how to submit your tender, download the Quick Guide for Economic Operators (pdf document), for which  an EU Login is required, where you will find:  Last updated: June 2020 Page 19 of 21  Please note that you are responsible to ensure that your full tender reaches the destination  in due time. 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. The time-limit for receipt of tenders is indicated  point 1.4  of the ‘Terms of Reference’. In order to submit a tender using e-Submission, tenderers (each member of a group) will need to  register in the European Commission’s Participant Register, 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-management Quick Guide for  Economic Operators. Tenderers already registered in the Participant Register shall reuse their  existing PICs when preparing tenders in e-Submission. You can access the e-Submission 3 application via the corresponding call for tender in TED e- Tendering, as specified  point 1.2  of the ‘Terms of Reference’.  Make sure you submit your tender on time: you are advised to start completing your tender  early. To avoid any complications with regard to late receipt/non-receipt of tenders within the  deadline, please ensure that you submit your tender several hours before the deadline .  A  tender received after the deadline indicated in the procurement documents will be rejected. The e-Submission application allows economic operators to respond to calls for tenders by preparing  their tenders electronically in a structured and secured way, and submitting their tenders  electronically. The e-Tendering is the starting point for launching the e-Submission application.  You must submit your tender electronically via the e-Submission application available from the e- Tendering website (please refer to the link stated in the table in  point 1.2  of the ‘Terms of Reference’)  before the time limit for receipt of tenders. Tenders submitted in any other way (e.g. e-mail or by  letter) will be disregarded. (NB: Only applicable in case the Terms of Reference declare the use of e-Submission mandatory) 