Change notice published after deadline for tenders has been reached

We had a situation where a change notice with extended deadline was sent too late (evening) to TED so that the deadline for tenders the next day was reached before the change notice was published the day after. The publication as such happened normally. Before eForms, corrigendums would be rejected manually if such a case was to happen.

Is this behaviour intentional or should such change notices be rejected? The major eTendering systems in Finland cancel all tenders when a notice change process is initiated so in this case the CA had no access to the tenders already sent and there were no problems as such. This, of course, is not true for all systems.

If this is not intentional, we feel this should be prevented at TED’s end. It is quite hard for the eSender to take into account the possible delays in publication (weekends, holidays, technical issues, changing times for publishing) and we would need to prevent change notices already days before the deadline just to be sure.

Thoughts, ideas, facts, legals on this issue?