Slitting and Cut-to-Length Line

The bidder must not have tax arrears. Scheduled tax arrears are accepted. The contracting authority may also exclude bidders from third countries, meaning countries outside the EU, EEA, WTO GPA countries, and countries without a reciprocal EU public procurement agreement. The machine-readable notice did not include any further precise exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the official tender documents.

The bidder’s annual turnover for each of the last 3 financial years must be at least EUR 900,000. If the bidder is not an Estonian company, it must be ready to provide a signed copy of its financial statements or other equivalent evidence. Within the last 36 months before publication of the contract notice, the bidder must have supplied at least 3 slitting and cut-to-length lines to customers. For each reference, the bidder must provide the customer’s name, the scope of the contract, the contact details of the customer’s representative, and the date of acceptance of the works, stated by month and year. The bid must comply with the conditions set out in the tender documents, and conditional bids are not allowed. If equivalent solutions are offered, equivalence must be explained and evidence of equivalence must be attached. In the case of a joint bid, an authorised representative must be appointed and a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached. The bidder must also submit the price offer in the required structure, the technical requirements form, technical specifications and, where necessary, drawings. The machine-readable notice did not include any other precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the official tender documents.