Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither the bidder nor the members of its management, administrative or supervisory bodies, nor persons with representation authority, have been finally convicted within the last five years of the following offences: participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, money laundering or terrorist financing, use of child labour or other forms of trafficking in human beings, participation in a criminal organisation, commission of a terrorist act or offences related to terrorist activity, fraud, and other exclusion grounds listed in the ESPD.
If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may in certain cases submit evidence of self-cleaning measures to restore reliability. The contracting authority may also require explanations and evidence for information that is available electronically.
For subcontractors, the bidder must confirm that no subcontractor to be used in contract performance is subject to replacement under Section 122(7) of the Public Procurement Act. Goods that are the object of international sanctions or originate from sanctioned areas are not allowed.
The machine-readable notice did not include any more precise exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must demonstrate financial and technical capacity.
- The bidder’s average annual turnover from the bidder’s entire business activity during the financial years ending before the start of the last three public procurements must be at least EUR 200,000.
- During the 60 months before the start of the procurement, the bidder must have built at least 1 pedestrian path, pedestrian and cycle path, or cycle path with a length of at least 600 metres, and it must have been built together with lighting. This requirement may also be met if the path or sidewalk was built during the reconstruction of a road or street and had shared lighting.
- For previous works, the bidder must provide references to public procurements or details of the contract partner, the length of the built path and the lighting.
- The bid must comply with the requirements in the procurement documents and, where necessary, equivalence must be explained and evidence of equivalence must be attached.
- The required pricing table must be used and the prescribed structure must be completed when submitting the bid.
- In the case of a joint bid, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached.
- The machine-readable notice did not include any more precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.