SECTION 27

(1) Where a Contracting Authority cannot determine beforehand the volume or pace of orders for routine supplies or services it needs, it may resort to a framework agreement. (2) Framework agreements are contracts concluded by one or more Contracting Authorities with one or more service providers to lay down rules on purchase orders to be issued, or provisions to govern contract-based orders that may be passed subsequently within a given period, notably with regard to prices and, where applicable, the quantities envisaged. (3) The term of framework agreements may not exceed 3 (three) years. (4) Where a framework agreement is passed for a period exceeding 12 (twelve) months, and where the framework agreement expressly provides so, each of the contracting parties may request, at dates set by the parties, a revision of the prices in application of the price revision formula provided for therein, or to denounce the contract, where application of the price revision formula would lead to a unit price change higher than 25%. (5) Framework agreements may only be used for routine supplies or services, and maintenance and renovation works.