Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds for criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and related grounds under the Public Procurement Act. The bidder or its representatives may need to provide dates, reasons, persons concerned, exclusion periods, self-cleaning measures, and electronic evidence details where applicable. The bidder must also confirm that it does not involve, for contract performance, subcontractors or suppliers subject to the EU Russia sanctions restriction for more than 10% of the contract value. Precise exclusion grounds and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the official tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the commercial register of its country of establishment, if that is required under the law of that country. The bidder’s average annual turnover for the last three financial years ended by the start of the procurement must be at least EUR 960,000 per year. Joint bidders may aggregate turnover figures. The liquidity ratio (current assets divided by short-term liabilities) must not be below 1. The bidder must provide turnover data in the ESPD, and if needed extracts from the last three approved annual accounts and the liquidity calculation. The bidder must have a team that meets the requirements set out in point 8.2 of the technical specification, and the successful bidder must submit the team members for the contracting authority’s approval in the manner described in the technical specification. Any more detailed qualification, experience or team requirements must be checked in the tender documents.