Upon receipt of tenders, the Contract Administrator will accept only the ones that were received within the deadline mentioned in the Invitation to Tender. Any late tender should be dismissed and not allowed to be considered. It should remain un-opened.

The Contract Administrator then opens all the tenders at the same time with a witness present and performs a mathematical check against the totals provided by each tenderer. If errors are found, they are dealt with according to the type of procurement method selected and type of project.

The options with which any errors will be dealt with, should have already been made clear to the tenderers in the tender package documentation, and would either be:

• Confirm or Amend (usualy in private schemes)
• Confirm or Withdraw (usualy in public schemes)

The Contract Administrator will eventually produce a tender report, with an analysis of the returned tenders rates. The tender report will also include the CAs recommendation for the preferred contractor, which will be sent to the Client for the final approval and appointment of the preferred Contractor.