(1) The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (the “University”) is issuing the RFP Documents to retain a supplier to provide the goods and/or services briefly described in the RFP Data Sheet and set out in the Draft Agreement
(the “Goods and/or Services”). The RFP number is set out in the RFP Data Sheet (the “RFP Number”).
(2) The University intends to award the final agreement that will be entered into pursuant to this RFP Process (the “Final Agreement”) through an open, fair and competitive RFP process. The RFP competition will be open either to,
(a) any entity described in RFP Section 3.16(2);
(b) if a prequalification has taken place, only those entities or joint ventures that are prequalified to submit a response to the RFP Process as specified in the RFP Data Sheet (the “Prequalified Parties”); or
(c) only those entities that have been invited to submit a response to this RFP Process as specified in the RFP Data Sheet,
(3) The process to select the Negotiations Proponents for the purposes of the Goods and/or Services will commence with the issuance of the RFP Documents (as defined in RFP Section 2.1(1)) and will terminate when the University selects a Negotiations Proponent or Negotiations Proponents (the “RFP Process”).