General terms and conditions

•  a statement that government retains the right to amend the process or not to proceed with the project;

•  a statement that no costs associated with preparing a response to the EOI will be reimbursed by government under any circumstances;

•  details of the manner in which intellectual property contained in the EOI responses will be treated. Typically, this provides assurance that information provided by an EOI respondent will not be released. However, government retains the right to accommodate comments made in the EOI Phase in revisions to the proposed RFP;

•  advice that government is not required, and does not intend, to release any details regarding the evaluation process after it has occurred; and

•  the format, date and place of receipt of EOI responses.