Compliance requirements
The machine-readable notice includes the standard exclusion grounds from the Estonian Public Procurement Act, including criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour and other forms of human trafficking, terrorist offences, and related mandatory bidder confirmations. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may be allowed to provide evidence of self-cleaning where the procurement documents so provide. The exact list and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s net turnover for the last financial year ended by the start of the procurement must be at least EUR 135,000. Joint bidders may combine their turnover figures. To prove turnover, the contracting authority may request an extract from the latest annual report or other evidence; separate proof may not be required if the data are publicly available in the Estonian Business Register. If the bidder relies on another company’s resources, the bidder must also provide that company’s details and, where necessary, its consent and evidence of its turnover. As for technical capacity, the bidder must submit a list of contracts for publicly used road chip-sealing works that meet the contracting authority’s requirements and were completed within the 60 months preceding the start of the procurement, and the contracting authority may request the client’s confirmation that the works were performed properly. For bid compliance, the HD IV bill of quantities must be completed in full, submitted as an Excel file, and the bidder must not change the rows or descriptions provided by the contracting authority. The bidder must also confirm acceptance of the notice and tender document terms, that the bid is submitted only for the matters requested, that no subcontractor subject to replacement is used, and, where relevant, indicate a joint bid and any business-secret information. The bidder must also confirm that the offered goods are not the object of international sanctions and do not originate from sanctioned areas.