Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that it has no outstanding tax arrears. The contracting authority may also exclude bidders from third countries, meaning countries outside the EU, EEA, WTO GPA countries, and countries without a reciprocal public procurement agreement with the EU. The machine-readable notice did not include any other precise exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the official tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s annual sales revenue for each of the last 3 financial years must be at least EUR 700,000. If the bidder is not an Estonian company, it must be ready to provide signed copies of financial statements or similar evidence to confirm this. Within the last 60 months before publication of the contract notice, the bidder must have supplied at least one single-sided edge banding machine; the machine must be capable of processing ABS edge material across the full specified thickness range and workpiece dimensions at a minimum feed speed of 20 m/min. For the reference, the bidder must provide the customer’s name, contract scope, contact details of the customer’s representative, and the date of acceptance of the works, stated by month and year. The tender must also include technical specifications, if necessary drawings, confirmation of compliance with the technical requirements, a power of attorney in the case of a joint tender, and any other confirmations and documents required by the tender documents. The machine-readable notice did not include precise compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.