Opening of Tenders

(1) The Procurement entity may authorise either the Tender Inviting Authority or the Tender Accepting Authority or any other Officer to open the Tenders and draw up a list of Tenderers responding to the notice inviting tender, in each case. (2) The Authority, or as the case may be the officer referred to in sub-section (1) shall open the tender, draw up a list of tenderers in the prescribed manner and unless it is also the Tender Accepting Authority, forward the tenders along with the list of tenderers, to the Tender Accepting Authority.