Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds under Estonian procurement law, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud and other mandatory grounds. The bidder must confirm the relevant declarations and, where applicable, may provide evidence of self-cleaning. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list of exclusion grounds; the exact grounds and any recovery/self-cleaning details must be checked in the official tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must show an annual net turnover of at least EUR 100,000 in building general cleaning for each of the last three completed financial years before the start of the procurement. The bidder must also have completed at least 3 building general cleaning contracts in the 36 months before the start of the procurement, each worth at least EUR 100,000 excluding VAT. Those contracts must include experience with cleaning products carrying the EU Ecolabel for hard-surface cleaning or another equivalent Type I ecolabel under EN ISO 14024. If an equivalent label is used, the bidder must prove equivalence. If no ecolabel is available, an audit or other documents confirming compliance with the ecolabel criteria must be submitted. Cleaning staff must have at least Cleaning Service Worker Level 3 or an equivalent qualification; if they do not, the bidder must provide in-house training before service starts and submit evidence of that training. Staff without the qualification or training may work on site only under the presence and supervision of a person with at least Cleaning Service Instructor Level 4. The bidder must also comply with the tender’s offer-conformity requirements, the pricing structure, the joint-bidder power of attorney requirement if applicable, the mandatory environmental training before service start, and the monitoring arrangement with a minimum frequency of one full working day at least every four months.