Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds, especially convictions related to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud and terrorist offences. If any such ground applies to the bidder, its management or supervisory body members, representatives or persons with authority to represent or control the bidder, the bidder may need to provide evidence of self-cleaning measures where allowed. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list in the excerpt, so the exact exclusion grounds must be checked in the official tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
Under the compliance requirements, the bidder must confirm that it will not involve subcontractors or suppliers representing more than 10% of the contract value who are Russian citizens, residents or entities established in the Russian Federation, or who are more than 50% owned by such persons or entities, or who act on their instructions. The contracting authority may reject a bid that would result in a contract being void under the sanctions rules. In the case of a joint bid, an authorised representative must be appointed and a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached. The bidder must indicate any business secrets in the bid and justify that designation. The team must include a business development project manager-consultant, a market-entry strategy expert, a business expert and a start-up entrepreneurship expert. Relevant CV information must be provided for each role. The bid must also include a comparison analysis of the UAE as a competitor and a positioning strategy.