Transformer lifting and transport equipment

The contracting authority will exclude a bidder if any exclusion ground under Section 95(1) of the Public Procurement Act applies. The bidder must confirm that neither the bidder nor the persons with authority to represent, decide on behalf of, or control the bidder have been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism, money laundering, financing of terrorism, illegal use of child labour, breaches of rules on employing a foreign national staying in the country without legal basis, or offences related to human trafficking. The bidder must also confirm that it has no outstanding national tax, fee or environmental charge debt, or equivalent debt under the law of its country of establishment, and that entering into the contract would not breach an international sanction or a sanction of the Government of the Republic. If the bid is submitted together with a foreign company, the bidder must also provide documents confirming the absence of exclusion grounds for that company and the relevant persons, where required by the contracting authority or where the information cannot be checked from public registers.

The machine-readable notice did not include any precise selection or suitability criteria; these must be checked in the tender documents. As compliance requirements, the bidder must confirm that it has reviewed the subject matter and conditions of the procurement, found no omissions preventing accurate pricing, has the intellectual property and personal data processing rights needed to submit the bid and perform the contract, and that the offered equipment is new, unused, defect-free and complies with the technical requirements. The bid must also include a bid security of EUR 5,000, a technical description of the offered equipment, a duly completed price table, and where applicable a power of attorney, a joint bidders’ authorisation and confirmation, and documents proving the representation rights or authorised persons of a foreign company. If subcontractors are used or the bidder relies on another undertaking’s capacities, the relevant authorised persons of those entities must also be provided. The bidder must further confirm that subcontractors and suppliers representing more than 10% of the contract value are not linked to the Russian Federation as described in the notice, and that the offered goods are not subject to international sanctions and do not originate from sanctioned areas.