Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that it has no tax debt, no debt for charges or environmental fees under the Taxation Act, and no tax or social security contribution debt under the law of its country of establishment. If such debt exists, the contracting authority will give at least three working days to pay or defer it.
The machine-readable notice did not include any other precise exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must provide a training plan, preferably up to four A4 pages, describing the learning outcomes, volume in academic hours, amount of practical work, the preliminary agenda for each contact-learning day, activities between training days, training content, teaching methods, description of learning materials, number of participants and the trainers. The contracting authority evaluates the training plan under award criterion 1.
The bidder must name the training team in the tender: the trainers who will prepare the training programme and deliver the training. The team must include both theorists and practitioners in the field, and there must be enough trainers to deliver lectures and workshops. Use of external experts is recommended, especially for the theoretical part.
Team members should have at least a master's degree, preferably a doctorate or 4 years of research experience; at least 2 years of experience in the field of foresight; and experience in training the target group(s) named in the procurement, preferably on foresight or related topics such as trend and development analysis, scenario building, horizon scanning and strategic future thinking. The team members do not each need to meet all listed requirements individually, but together they must cover all of them.
The bidder must submit a description of the team structure and how the team will cooperate, as well as a CV for each team member showing the education and experience needed for evaluation. If at least one external expert is included, the bidder may receive extra points. The external expert is a person with international practical experience in applying the foresight method.
The machine-readable notice did not include any other precise qualification, suitability or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.