PROCEDURES FOR THE APPELLATION

1. The Appellation shall be formalized by presenting the writ of appeal and three (3) copies in the office of the Deputy Secretary of the Department, for the attention of the 25 Board of Appeals of the Department of Agriculture within the term provided on Section 51 of the Regulation herein. 2. Copy of the writ of appeal must be notified to the Auctions Board on the same date it was presented to the Board of Appeals. 3. The appellant party shall be responsible to notify all the bidders that participate in the auction and to the Department of Agriculture. The notification shall be executed by certified mail with receipt of acknowledgement or by any other similar mean of personal delivery with receipt of acknowledgement. The notification to all other bidders shall be executed within the jurisdictional term for the presentation of the appeal. This requirement is of strict compliance. 4. The appeal shall be accompanied by a bond of twenty - five (25%) percent of the value of the refuted parties. 5. Should the appellant be the contractor of the current, which shall be substituted with the proposed new contract, the effectiveness of such contract shall not be extended unless he pays a bond of the fifty (50%) percent of the approximate total cost which shall be renewed automatically under the same terms and conditions the auctions final award.