Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the exclusion grounds under Section 95(1) points 1–5 of the Estonian Public Procurement Act apply to it. These include convictions for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, illegal employment of a foreign national, child labour or human trafficking offences, tax or social security debt, and situations where awarding the contract would breach an international sanction or a sanction of the Estonian Government. The machine-readable notice did not include any other exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder and/or its subcontractor must have completed at least 1 similar contract in the last 36 months before the start of the procurement, where the subject was a building audit and/or expert assessment. The bidder must submit a list of such contracts, including their value, dates and the other contracting parties. The bidder and/or its subcontractor must have qualified persons responsible for carrying out the work, including at least one audit specialist with the professional qualification of chartered civil engineer (at least level 7) and competence in building audit, or an equivalent or better qualification. Copies of documents proving the qualifications and competence of the responsible persons must be submitted. If the bidder is foreign and does not have the required documents issued under Estonian rules, it must submit equivalent documents from its home country and a confirmation that it will provide the confirmation issued by the Estonian Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority within one month after signing the contract. The machine-readable notice did not include any more precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.