Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds from the Estonian Public Procurement Act. A bidder must confirm that neither the company nor its management, administrative or supervisory body members, nor persons authorised to represent or control the company, have been finally convicted in the last five years for offences such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering, child labour or other listed grounds. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may provide evidence of self-cleaning where allowed. The machine-readable notice does not provide the full list in a concise form, so the exact exclusion grounds and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must submit a tender in Estonian and confirm that it accepts all tender document conditions. The tender is for designing a special welfare institution for the Mõisapõllu 3 and 5 properties, including concept design, preliminary, main and working design, building permit application, advice during construction and furnishing procurements, and designer supervision during construction. Financial capacity: the bidder’s total annual turnover for each of the last 3 financial years ended by the start of the procurement must have been at least EUR 120,000. Technical and professional capacity: within the 36 months before the notice date, the bidder must have completed at least one similar design contract as the main contractor. A similar contract means a project for a building or building complex of at least 600 m² net internal area, completed at least to main design stage, with building permit issued or accepted by the client, and covering at least architecture, structural design, technical systems (heating, ventilation, cooling, heat supply, water supply and sewerage), electrical systems (power, weak current and automation), fire safety and energy performance. Team requirements: the bidder must involve a project manager with at least level 7 professional qualification as a chartered civil engineer or chartered architect, and an architect with at least level 7 professional qualification as a chartered architect. The project manager must have managed at least one similar design contract as the main contractor’s project manager during the last 36 months, and the architect must have experience as the main contractor’s architect on at least one building or building complex over 600 m² at main design stage. The project manager and architect must be different persons. If the specialist’s qualification was issued outside Estonia, copies of the relevant qualification documents must be submitted, and during contract performance the bidder must provide, on request, a document from the competent Estonian authority confirming equivalence. For joint bids, a power of attorney for the authorised representative must be submitted and each joint bidder’s share and role in the contract must be stated. The tender must also comply with the tender documents and the required forms listed in them.