Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard mandatory exclusion grounds, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences and related offences, money laundering, child labour and human trafficking, and other grounds under Estonian procurement law. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may be asked to confirm whether it has taken self-cleaning measures and to provide supporting evidence. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list in a concise form, so the exact exclusion grounds must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the commercial register. To provide the service, the bidder must hold a valid community transport operating licence within the meaning of Section 39(1) of the Public Transport Act by the bid submission deadline, and the licence number must be confirmed in the ESPD. As for previous experience, the bidder, or the joint bidders taken together, must have performed at least 1 passenger transport contract during the last 36 months; the bidder must provide the contract value, the client’s or route permit issuer’s contact details, the time and place of performance, and other details that allow the experience to be verified. For contract performance, the bidder must be able to use a bus of the appropriate size and in proper condition for each lot from 01.09.2026, and technical documents for the buses must be submitted. In the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney for the joint bidders must be attached. The bid must be submitted in the structure required by the tender documents and the bidder must confirm that it complies with all conditions. The machine-readable notice did not include precise requirements in a concise form, so the exact qualification, suitability and compliance requirements must be checked in the tender documents.