26.1. Pursuant to section 26, the public body must award the contract to the contractor that submits the lowest adjusted price.
Despite section 17, if several contractors obtain identical results, the public body awards the contract to a contractor according to one of the following rules, which must be specified in the tender documents:1° the contractor submitting the tender obtaining the highest score based on the quality criterion having the greatest weight for the carrying out of the contract; that awarding rule cannot be used if there is another criterion of equal weight;
2° the contractor submitting the tender obtaining the highest final score based on quality during the second stage;
3° by a drawing of lots.
142-2025D. 142-2025, s. 251.