24. When awarding a contract in accordance with section 16 or 17, the public body opens the tenders publicly in the presence of a witness at the designated place and on the date and at the time set in the tender documents, unless the tenders are in the form of a price list whose scope or layout does not make it possible to specify a total price.
At the public opening, the public body discloses the names of all the tenderers, including the name of any tenderer who electronically transmitted a tender whose integrity has not been ascertained, although such information is subject to verification.
Moreover, where the call for tenders concerns the awarding of a contract without quality evaluation, the public body also discloses, subject to the same verification, the respective total price of the tenders. Despite the foregoing, if the integrity of at least one tender transmitted electronically could not be ascertained at the opening, such disclosure takes place instead at the time of the publication provided for in the fourth paragraph.
The public body publishes, within 4 business days, the result of the public opening in the electronic tendering system.
295-2016O.C. 295-2016, s. 24.