Compliance requirements
The bidder must not be subject to exclusion under Section 95(1) of the Public Procurement Act. It must be confirmed that neither the bidder nor the persons with authority to represent, decide for or control the bidder have been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering, breaches of employment conditions, or offences related to child labour or trafficking in human beings. The bidder must also have no outstanding state tax, levy or environmental charge debt, or tax debt in its country of establishment, and the award of the contract must not breach any international sanctions or Government of Estonia sanctions. If the bid is submitted with a foreign company, evidence confirming the absence of exclusion grounds for that company and its management and representative persons must also be provided if requested by the contracting authority.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
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 of the procurement and all conditions, found no inaccuracies or omissions preventing the bid price from being determined with sufficient accuracy, has the intellectual property and personal data processing rights needed to prepare the bid and perform the contract, and that the offered equipment is new, unused, defect-free and complies with the technical requirements. In addition, a bid security of EUR 17,000, a technical description of the offered equipment, a duly completed price table, where applicable a power of attorney for the bidder’s representative, a joint bidders’ power of attorney and confirmation, and the required details or evidence concerning foreign companies and other authorised persons must be submitted. If subcontractors are used or the bidder relies on another undertaking’s capacities, the details of those authorised persons must also be provided.