Compliance requirements
The exclusion grounds include at least participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering or terrorist financing, use of child labour and other forms of human trafficking. The bidder must confirm that neither it nor its representatives have been convicted on these grounds, or that any exclusion period no longer applies. Where applicable, evidence of self-cleaning may be submitted. For subcontractors, first-tier subcontractors are also checked and may need to be replaced if an exclusion ground applies.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or suitability criteria; these must be checked in the procurement documents. The ESPD states that the qualification requirements are set out in the tender documents, but no specific turnover, experience, staff, certificate or other numerical requirements were provided in the input. As compliance conditions, the bidder must confirm that the bid complies with all tender documents, a site visit before submission is mandatory, and in the case of a joint bid a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached. If subcontracting is used, the required subcontractor forms and confirmations must be submitted.