(1) A public entity shall, while opening proposals pursuant to Section 32 of the Act, open them in the presence of proponents or their representatives.
Provided that it shall not bar the opening of a proposal for the reason that the proponent or his or her representative is not present.
(2) Prior to opening proposals pursuant to sub-rule (1), the public entity shall segregate the envelopes of the proposals received after the deadline and those of the proposals duly registered, and shall return unopened the proposals received after the deadline to the
concerned proponents. The public entity shall mention the matter of such return, date and time in the report of procurement action.
(3) After returning the proposals pursuant to sub-rule (2), the public entity shall open the outer envelope of every proposal duly registered respectively, and the envelope of technical proposal contained in that envelope and read out the following matters and then prepare a record (Muchulka) thereof:
(a) Name and address of the proponent,
(b) Whether the proposal is signed by the proponent or not,
(c) In the event of any correction or overwriting in the documents relating to proposal, whether the proponent or his or her representative has signed such correction and overwriting or not,
(d) Such other necessary matters that the public entity deems appropriate.
(4) The public entity shall cause the record (Muchulka) referred to in sub-rule (3) to be signed by the proponent or his or her agent present.
(5) The public entity shall send as soon as possible the technical proposals opened pursuant to sub-rule (4) to the evaluation committee.