Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the exclusion grounds under Section 95(1) points 1–5 of the Public Procurement Act apply to it. In practical terms, this means no relevant criminal convictions of the bidder’s management or authorised representatives, no unlawful employment-related convictions, no convictions for child labour or trafficking, no tax or social security debt as described, and no conflict with international or Government sanctions. The machine-readable notice did not include any other exclusion grounds; check the tender documents for the full wording.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or suitability criteria; these must be checked in the tender documents. As compliance requirements, the bidder must submit a short description of the offered locomotive, including the make, model and key technical data, so that the contracting authority can assess compliance with the tender conditions. If the bid relies on equivalence, this must be explained where necessary and evidence of equivalence must be attached. If this is a joint bid, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be included in the bid documents.