Preliminary assessment of the fourth payment request of Romania

      2022.                                     Committee certifies that the eForms
                                                functionalities (stage one) were developed
                                                and that they will be integrated in the SEAP
                                                platform.
 7    Certificate of acceptance No. 12650 of 15 The document signed by the ADR
      December 2022.                            Acceptance Committee confirms that the
                                                committee verified the provision of services
                                                related to eForms (stage one).
 8    Commissioning report No. 12652 of 15 This document signed by ADR Reception
      December 2022.                            Committee and Altimate S.A certifies that
                                                the technical tests of the products related to
                                                the capacity for normal operation and

                                                product quality assurance, according to the
                                                technical-economic documentation and
                                                approved technical-economic indicators are
                                                operating.
 9    Annex No. 1 with screenshots from SEAP.   Screenshots No. 1.1-1.4 regarding the
                                                notifications published by the SEAP Operator
                                                in the News of Interest section of SEAP,
                                                accompanied by the eForms User Guide
                                                regarding the implementation of eForms-
                                                format notices.
10    Annex No. 2 with screenshots from SEAP.   Screenshots Nos. 2.1-2.5 taken from the
                                                search page and search results for Romania

                                                on the European TED platform and on SEAP
                                                platform.
11    Annex No. 3 with screenshots from SEAP.   Screenshots nos. 3.1-3.4 taken from the
                                                public contracting authority manuals section
                                                of SEAP.

3. Analysis:

The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities cover all constitutive elements of the target.

Entry into use of standard electronic forms in public procurement procedures.

The Electronic Public Procurement System (Sistemul Electronic de Achiziții Publice - SEAP) is Romania's mandatory electronic public procurement system, operated by the Authority for Digitalisation of Romania (ADR). Subsequent Contract No. 7 of 6 June 2023 (hereinafter referred to as “the Subsequent Contract No. 7”) (Evidence No. 2) sets the technical requirements and implementation steps for integrating EU-standard eForms as established in the Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1780. The implementation took place in two stages due to technical requirements. ADR verified, accepted and put into operation through the relevant acceptance certificates, receipt reports and entry-into-operation reports the implementation of the contract, which are detailed below. TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) is the online version of the Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), specifically dedicated to public procurement. TED has implemented a system for publishing notices in OJEU in electronic form, providing contracting authorities two ways of completing them. Romania uses one of the methods,

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