1. Member States may provide that contracting authorities/entities may use electronic auctions.

2. In restricted and negotiated procedures with publication of a contract notice, the contracting authorities/entities may decide that the award of a contract shall be preceded by an electronic auction when the contract specifications can be established with precision.

In the same circumstances, an electronic auction may be held on the reopening of competition among the parties to a framework agreement as provided for in the second indent of the second subparagraph of Article 29(4).

The electronic auction shall be based:

- solely on price, where the contract is awarded to the lowest price; or,

- on price and/or on the new values of the features of the tenders indicated in the contract documents, where the contract is awarded to the most economically advantageous tender,

3. Contracting authorities/entities which decide to hold an electronic auction shall state that fact in the contract notice.