Compliance requirements
The notice includes standard exclusion grounds based on final convictions, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour and other forms of human trafficking, fraud, and terrorist offences. The bidder must confirm these grounds and may, where allowed, provide evidence of self-cleaning. The machine-readable notice does not provide the full list in one place, so the exact exclusion grounds and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the relevant professional register in its country of establishment. An Estonian bidder must have a business activity notice in the Register of Economic Activities for the activity ‘Construction’, sub-activity ‘road construction’ and ‘public water supply or sewerage’; a foreign bidder must provide evidence that it is entitled to carry out these construction works in its country of establishment.
The bidder’s total net turnover for the last three completed financial years must be at least EUR 1,000,000. The contracting authority may request annual report extracts or other evidence of turnover.
The bidder must have properly completed at least one construction contract for a gravity sewer or stormwater pipeline on an asphalt-paved street within the last 72 months, where the installed pipe had an internal diameter of at least De1400 mm. The input did not provide the full end of this experience requirement, so the remaining technical details must be checked in the tender documents.
The bid must comply with the requirements in the tender documents, alternative and partial bids are not allowed, and the bid price must be submitted without VAT. A bid security of EUR 5,000 is required and must remain valid at least until the minimum bid validity period expires; it may be evidenced by a bank or insurance guarantee or by depositing the amount into the contracting authority’s account. In the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be submitted. The bidder must also confirm that the bid does not contain trade secrets or that any trade secret designation is justified, and that it does not use a subcontractor who would have to be replaced under Section 122(7) of the Public Procurement Act.