Section 7: Request for proposal

7. Request for proposal A notice of invitation or document pertaining to a request for proposal for the procurement of a private party may be issued using any of the following procurement methods – (a) open advertised bidding method, whereby the invitation to bid shall be published in a national newspaper having wide circulation and, in the case of an international bidding, in selected international media having wide circulation; Acts 2021 427 (b) framework agreement, between a contracting authority and one or more private parties, which establishes the terms and conditions under which the private party or parties, as the case may be, shall enter into one or more agreements with the contracting authority during the duration of the agreement; or (c) restricted bidding procedure, where a contracting authority has reason to believe that the agreement may be implemented by a limited number of bidders. (i) in section 10, by inserting, after paragraph (a), the following new paragraph – (aa) shall be responsible for the authorisation, approval and carrying out of the pre-selection exercise to procure a private party;