Electricity purchase 2026 - 2029

The notice includes the standard exclusion grounds from the ESPD: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour and human trafficking, and other mandatory exclusion grounds under Estonian procurement law. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may need to provide evidence of self-cleaning where allowed. The machine-readable notice does not give the full list in one place, so the official tender documents must be checked for the exact wording and any additional grounds.

The bidder must be registered in the commercial register; a bidder established abroad must be registered in the commercial register of its country of establishment if that is required there. If the registration cannot be verified by the contracting authority, a certificate or a copy of the registration must be provided. Technical and professional capacity requirement: during the 36 months preceding the start of the procurement, the bidder must have properly performed at least 3 electricity sales contracts. Each contract must have a value of at least EUR 100,000 excluding VAT. The bidder must provide a description of the contracts, their value, the time period and information about the other contracting parties; if a contract was awarded through public procurement, the procurement reference number must also be stated. The contracting authority may request confirmation letters from the bidder’s counterparties. For the delivery period, the bidder must either hold balance responsibility status itself or have a valid contract with a balance responsible party for open supply and balance management. If the bidder is itself a balance responsible party, it must, if requested, provide a copy of the balance contract or confirmation from the system operator. If the bidder uses a balance responsible party, it must provide a copy of the open supply contract or confirmation from the balance responsible party that such a contract exists. The compliance conditions also state that in the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached, the bid must comply with all conditions set out in the tender documents, and a conditional bid is not allowed. In addition, the bidder must confirm that it will not involve subcontractors or suppliers accounting for more than 10% of the contract value if they are Russian citizens, residents, or entities established in the Russian Federation, or persons or entities connected to them. The exact wording of all compliance requirements must be checked in the tender documents.