Compliance requirements
The tender documents include mandatory exclusion grounds based on criminal convictions and related self-cleaning options. The bidder must confirm the absence of grounds such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and other listed exclusion situations. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may provide evidence of self-cleaning where allowed by the tender documents or applicable law.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the commercial register of its country of establishment, if that is required under the law of that country. The bidder’s average net turnover for the financial years ended by the start of the last three public procurements must be at least EUR 1,039,226 per year. Joint bidders may combine turnover figures. The bidder must also provide extracts from the last three closed annual accounts showing turnover, unless the data are publicly and freely available to the contracting authority from a data register. The liquidity ratio (current assets divided by current liabilities) must not be below 1 according to the latest closed annual accounts. The bid must follow the structure set out in the procurement documents, and the bid price must be submitted in the price offer form in Annex 3, with unit prices excluding VAT to two decimal places. The bidder’s team must meet the requirements set out in Annex 2 to the service contract, and the list of team members together with documents proving their competence must be submitted to the client for approval within 10 days after contract signature. If the bid is submitted as a joint bid, a power of attorney for the joint bidders must be attached. The bidder must also provide the names and personal identification codes of authorised persons, or confirm that no such persons exist. In addition, the bidder must confirm that the bid complies with the tender documents, that no conditional bid is submitted, and that it will not involve subcontractors or suppliers representing more than 10% of the contract value if they are linked to the Russian Federation under the sanctions requirement.