Compliance requirements
The tender documents include mandatory exclusion grounds based on final convictions, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour and other forms of trafficking in human beings, and other grounds under the procurement rules. The bidder must confirm these points and, where applicable, may provide evidence of self-cleaning. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list in one place, so the exact exclusion grounds must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must demonstrate economic and technical capacity. A total turnover of at least EUR 30,000 for the last three financial years before the start of the procurement procedure is required. The bidder must also provide at least three similar contracts duly performed within the last 36 months; a similar contract is defined as a contract of at least one month for conformity assessment services for an information security management system in accordance with ISO/IEC 27001:2022, including certification and/or surveillance audits, and each contract must have a total value of at least EUR 15,000. In addition, the bidder must be a certification body with appropriate accreditation for conducting certification or surveillance audits under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, confirmed by an accreditation body that is a member of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). To prove this, the bidder must provide a copy of a valid accreditation certificate or an equivalent document and complete the annexes required in the tender documents. The tender must comply with the tender documents and, where equivalence is relied upon, it must be substantiated. In the case of a joint tender, an authorised representative must be appointed and a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be submitted. The bidder must also confirm that the tender is not conditional, that the tender price is submitted in the required structure, and that no subcontractor is engaged who would have to be replaced under Section 122(7) of the Public Procurement Act.