October 1 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's healthcare ministry said that it has extended the deadline for submitting offers in a tender for awarding framework agreements worth 1.08 billion levs ($602.2 million/552.7 million euro) for the purchase of drugs over a period of two years.
The deadline has been extended by approximately one month - from October 8 to November 5, the ministry said in a notice last week.
Some other changes have been made in the terms of the tender as well. The contracting authority now envisages signing framework agreements with up to 10 participants instead of up to 20 participants, as intially stated at the beginning of September, when the healthcare ministry opened the public procurement procedure.
The tender itself is divided into two lots, including different nomenclatures of oncology pharmaceuticals, requested by 203 hospitals in the country.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)