Compliance requirements
The bidder is excluded if it is bankrupt, in liquidation, subject to bankruptcy or liquidation proceedings, or otherwise suspended under the law of its country of establishment. The bidder is also excluded if it has unpaid state tax, fee or environmental charge debt, or tax or social security contribution debt, unless the debt has been deferred, paid, or will be paid/deferred within 10 calendar days after notice. The notice also requires confirmation that the bidder is not subject to the exclusion grounds listed in the Public Procurement Act, that the average wage of the bidder’s employees was not below 70% of the average wage in the relevant sector during the reference period, and that the bidder is not a related person to the technical consultant advising the apartment building reconstruction. If the contracting authority cannot verify these matters from public registers, the bidder must submit supporting evidence within 10 calendar days.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s net turnover for the financial year preceding the bid submission must be at least twice the estimated value of the contract, excluding VAT. During the previous 60 months, the bidder must have carried out at least one comparable construction project with a value of at least half of the estimated contract value; comparable work means main-contracting for the construction, extension or full-building reconstruction of a building, including at least the construction or reconstruction of load-bearing and external envelope structures, mechanical ventilation with heat recovery, and a new heating system. The bidder must be able to provide a performance bond amounting to 5% of the construction contract value at contract signing or no later than 10 calendar days after signing; the bond may also be provided by depositing the amount on the contracting authority’s or a notary’s account. The team must include a project manager, site manager, ventilation and heating systems specialist, water supply and sewerage systems specialist, and a person carrying out electrical works, each with the required professional qualification or equivalent competence. The bidder must have the relevant business activity registrations in the business register for construction and electrical works, unless it is a foreign bidder, in which case equivalent proof of competence is accepted. The bidder must also have a quality management system in construction in accordance with EVS-EN ISO 9001 and an environmental management system in accordance with EVS-EN ISO 14001, or equivalent. If compliance cannot be verified from public registers, supporting evidence or free-form explanations must be submitted within the deadline set in the tender documents.