Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm the mandatory exclusion grounds listed in the tender documents, including convictions related to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud and other serious offences. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may indicate self-cleaning measures where allowed. The machine-readable notice does not provide the full list in the excerpt shown, so the exact exclusion grounds must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be entered in the list of audit firms under the Auditing Activities Act and hold a valid operating licence. The contracting authority may request evidence of registration if public data are not easily available to it. A foreign-registered company must submit a certificate confirmed or legalised by the competent register of its home country, and the certificate must not be older than 20 calendar days at the time the bid is submitted.
The bidder must have professional liability insurance or another appropriate document showing that it has the means to compensate damage that may arise from a possible breach of the contract; the minimum insured amount is EUR 60,000.
The persons responsible for the service, the signatory of the auditor’s report and the audit team leader must hold the professional qualification of a public-sector auditor. The bidder must provide the names of these persons and the details of the persons involved in carrying out the audit.
The bid must include a service delivery plan that matches the terms of reference and the number of working hours set out in the tender documents, and it must describe the services offered and the timetable. The bid must be digitally signed, include all required forms, and must not be conditional or contain alternative solutions. In the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney for the joint bidders must be attached. The machine-readable notice did not include precise other qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.