# SUGGESTION Introduce an explicit indication that the opening of tenders is not public i.e. tenderers are not allowed to participate. # BACKGROUND In Germany for many cases the opening of tenders will be a non-public (i.e. internal) event. The presence of tenderers is not allowed. A public event (i.e. tenders are allowed to be present) is only allowed for work procurements; and considered unnecessary if only e-bids are permitted. Therefore in many cases the information of a public opening event is misleading, like date (BT-132(a)-Lot), time (BT-132(b)-Lot), place (BT-133-Lot) or description (BT-134-Lot). Until recently information about public opening at ND-PublicOpening was mandatory (for the OPEN PROCEDURE). At least, that has changed and that information is optional. Even today a non-public opening would be indicated by some text in the description field like "Bieter und deren Vertreter sind nicht zugelassen." ("Tenderers and their representatives are not allowed to participate." ) or "Nur Vertreter des AG" ("Only representatives of the \[abbrevation for buyer\]").