Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds. A bidder must confirm that neither the company nor its management, administrative or supervisory body members, nor any person authorised to represent or control it, has been finally convicted in the last five years for offences such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist offences, child labour or human trafficking, and other similar grounds listed in the procurement documents. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may be allowed to show self-cleaning measures where the procurement documents or law allow it. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list in a concise form, so the exact exclusion grounds must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must involve a project manager in contract performance who has at least a master's degree or equivalent education and experience as a project manager in at least three research projects during the 60 months preceding the start of the procurement. An analyst must also be involved, with at least a master's degree or equivalent education, experience as an analyst or expert in at least two socio-economic or humanities research projects during the same 60-month period, and experience with the research methods to be used in the contract. The bid must also include the study methodology, describing the study concept and the planned methods and how they will be applied. If artificial intelligence is used, the bidder must explain in which work stages it will be used and how result quality and data protection will be ensured. In addition, the pricing form must be completed, a joint bid power of attorney must be submitted if applicable, and the bidder must confirm that the bid complies with the tender documents and, where relevant, that equivalence has been demonstrated.