Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm the standard exclusion grounds: no final conviction in the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or financing of terrorism, illegal employment of a foreign national staying without legal basis, or child labour and human trafficking. The bidder must also confirm that neither the company nor its management or supervisory body is subject to an international sanction. In addition, the tender documents include other exclusion grounds such as tax debts, breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations, bankruptcy or liquidation, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive conduct, conflicts of interest, and participation in preparing the tender. If an exclusion ground exists, the bidder may be asked to explain self-cleaning measures. Exact details must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must submit the ESPD as preliminary evidence. The financial and economic requirement is that the bidder’s total net turnover for the last three audited financial years must be at least EUR 1,000,000. If the bidder relies on the resources of another entity, this must be indicated in the ESPD and that entity will be jointly liable for the part of the contract performed on the basis of its resources.
The tender must be unconditional and must include confirmation that it remains valid for at least 3 months, confirmation of the intellectual property rights needed to perform the contract and the order, confirmation that the bidder has reviewed KeMIT’s technology profile and is ready to use the products and technologies listed there, and the unit price for one working hour together with the methodological and organisational measures used, in the required structure.
To perform the framework agreement, the bidder must have a team consisting of at least one analyst, at least two data warehouse developers, a developer with experience in geospatial data warehouse development, a data architect, a tester and a project manager. The minimum team size is 5, and one person may fill at most two roles, except for developers, who may not hold multiple roles. The team must be able to work in Estonian at the level required for the job and in English at the level needed for technical documentation.
The analyst must have a higher education degree or at least 3 years of experience as an analyst in software development, and at least 3 years of experience in analysing business processes and data requirements, translating needs into models, ensuring consistency of the logical data model, and BI work (Tableau). Estonian language skills must be at a very good level both spoken and written, and the use of an interpreter is not allowed.
The geospatial data warehouse developer must have a higher education degree or at least 3 years of experience as a geospatial developer, and at least 3 years of experience as a data warehouse developer, including experience with spatial data and FME.
The data warehouse developer must have a higher education degree or at least 3 years of experience as a developer in software development, and at least 3 years of experience in ETL/ELT work (Python, SQL, FME), Apache Airflow and Postgres/PostGIS.
The data architect must have an IT-related higher education degree, at least 5 years of experience as a data architect, including data warehouse architecture, spatial data, CI/CD/IaC and cloud solutions (AWS/Snowflake/Redshift), and very good Estonian language skills both spoken and written.
The project manager must have a higher education degree or at least 3 years of experience as a project manager in software development, and at least 3 years of experience managing IT development projects, including Scrum/Kanban and public sector experience.
The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.
The machine-readable notice did not include precise exclusion grounds beyond the standard grounds; the exact details must be checked in the tender documents.