Before taking a decision to reject an economic operator from a given procurement procedure, the contracting authority shall give the economic operator the opportunity to submit its observations, unless the rejection has been justified in accordance with point (a) of paragraph 1 by an exclusion decision taken with regard to the economic operator, following an examination of its observations.
Sula ndéanfaidh sé cinneadh oibreoir eacnamaíoch a dhiúltú i gcás nós imeachta soláthair ar leith, tabharfaidh an t-údarás conarthach an deis don oibreoir eacnamaíoch a chuid barúlacha a chur faoina bhráid, mura rud é gur míníodh údar an diúltaithe i gcomhréir le pointe (a) de mhír 1, de bharr cinneadh eisiaimh a rinneadh maidir leis an oibreoir eacnamaíoch, tar éis scrúdú a dhéanamh ar a chuid barúlacha.