Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds. A bidder or its management/representative may be excluded if they have a final conviction from the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption or fraud. The notice also refers to self-cleaning: if an exclusion ground exists, the bidder may submit evidence that it has taken measures to restore reliability, where allowed by the procurement rules or the tender documents. The machine-readable notice does not provide the full list of exclusion grounds, so the official tender documents must be checked.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be entered in the commercial register of its country of establishment, or provide a copy of the relevant registration certificate. If there is no registration obligation, a copy of the memorandum of association or an equivalent document must be submitted.
For wholesale distribution of medicines in Estonia, the bidder must hold an operating licence. The contracting authority checks this in the Medicines Agency’s operating licence register.
The bid must comply with the tender documents. The bidder must submit the declaration on form I of Annex 3 and the price offer form and technical specification in Annex 1. The bid must state the product name, manufacturer and data showing compliance with the requirements. The bid validity period must be at least 3 months.
In a joint bid, an authorised representative must be appointed and the original power of attorney granted to that representative must be submitted. If the signatory is not a person with representation rights in the register, a power of attorney for representation of the bidder must be submitted.
The machine-readable notice did not include any more precise qualification or suitability criteria; these must be checked in the official tender documents. The machine-readable notice did not include any more precise qualification or suitability criteria; these must be checked in the official tender documents.