Compliance requirements
The exclusion grounds include the usual criminal-conviction grounds, such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorist offences, child labour and human trafficking, as well as failure to pay taxes and social security contributions and other grounds listed in the Public Procurement Act. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may in some cases submit evidence of self-cleaning to demonstrate reliability. The machine-readable notice did not set out all exclusion grounds in full; the exact list must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be a licensed insurance service provider from the European Union, another EEA contracting state, or a country that has acceded to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement. To carry out non-life insurance activities, the bidder must hold an operating licence for the territory of the Republic of Estonia. The bid must be submitted in the form required by the procurement documents and must comply with all compliance requirements. In the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be included. The bid price must be entered in the structure required on the worksheet ‘Award criteria and evaluated indicators’. The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or technical requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.