Compliance requirements
Mandatory exclusion grounds include at least participation in a criminal organisation, fraud, terrorist offences or offences linked to terrorist activity, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour and other forms of trafficking in human beings, and corruption. If the bidder or a person in its management, representation or control has been finally convicted of such an offence within the last five years, this may be a ground for exclusion.
The bidder may, where necessary, provide evidence of self-cleaning measures to restore reliability. If an exclusion ground exists, it must be checked whether remediation is allowed under the rules for above-threshold procurements or under the procurement documents. The machine-readable notice did not include the precise exclusion grounds in full; they must be checked in the procurement documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be entered in the register of audit firms under the Auditing Activities Act and hold a valid operating licence. The bidder and the sworn auditors representing it under law must be independent from the contracting authority. The bidder must submit Annex 4, “Data on the sworn auditor(s)”.
The technical and professional capacity requirement is that, during the last three years (2025, 2024 and 2023), the bidder has audited at least three public-sector entities in Estonia, of which at least two belong to a local government consolidation group. Evidence must be provided in Annex 3, “Data on the audit service contract or procurement contract”.
The tender must comply with the service description set out in the procurement documents, and the tender price must be submitted in the required format. If any precise requirement is not fully visible in the machine-readable notice, it must be checked in the procurement documents.