18. The public body awards the contract on the basis of the work described and the rules established in the tender documents and according to the price submitted.
The public body may, however, negotiate the price submitted and the price stipulated in the contract may be less than the price submitted if(1) at the end of the tendering process, only one contractor submitted a compliant tender;
(2) the contractor agreed to a new price; and
(3) it is the only change made to the conditions set out in the tender documents or to the tender in the course of the negotiation.
O.C. 532-2008, s. 18; 294-2016O.C. 294-2016, s. 91.