Compliance requirements
The bidder and its management or control body members must not have been finally convicted within the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud or any other exclusion ground listed in the ESPD. If such a ground exists, the bidder may in some cases submit evidence of self-cleaning measures.
The bidder must confirm that it will not use subcontractors or suppliers for more than 10% of the contract value if they are Russian citizens, residents or entities established in the Russian Federation, or persons/entities owned or controlled by them or acting on their instructions.
The bidder must confirm that the offered goods are not subject to international sanctions and do not originate from sanctioned territories. The bidder’s place of residence or establishment must also be in Estonia, another EU Member State, an EEA contracting state or a country that has joined the WTO Government Procurement Agreement.
The machine-readable notice did not include precise exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the Estonian commercial register or in an equivalent register in its country of establishment, if such registration is required there. If the bidder is not registered in Estonia, the contracting authority may request an official register extract with an Estonian translation.
The bidder’s net turnover for each of the last three financial years completed by the time the procurement was launched must be at least EUR 220,000 per year. The turnover must be reported separately for each year, and the contracting authority may request extracts from annual reports if the data are not publicly available in the commercial register.
The bid must include a detailed price form in the structure provided by the contracting authority. The bidder must also confirm that the bid complies with the requirements set out in the procurement documents and, where necessary, that equivalence has been explained and supporting evidence has been attached.
The bidder must provide a list of the bidder’s representatives if the register does not show all persons authorised to represent the company, make decisions on its behalf or control it. If the bidder is not the bus manufacturer, it must submit a manufacturer-signed authorisation allowing it to offer these buses in Estonia for this procurement.
The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or compliance requirements; any other required forms, evidence and technical-specification-related requirements must be checked in the tender documents.