Compliance requirements
The bidder and its management bodies must not have been finally convicted within the last 5 years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activities, money laundering, or terrorist financing. If such a ground exists, the bidder may provide evidence of self-cleaning measures where permitted. The machine-readable notice did not include precise other exclusion grounds; these must be checked in the tender documents. The bidder must also confirm the required answers regarding these grounds in the tender documents or electronic form where applicable, and the official tender details should be checked for any additional mandatory declarations or evidence.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the commercial register of its country of establishment. The bidder’s average annual turnover in the field covered by the contract must have been at least EUR 200,000 per year over the last 3 completed financial years in the production and/or sale of digitisation equipment. The bidder must also have completed at least 2 comparable projects for the supply and installation of digitisation equipment within the last 5 years before the start of the procurement, each with a value of at least EUR 100,000. For those reference projects, the bidder must provide the client’s name, contact person and contact details, contract value, project period, and a short description of the digitisation equipment supplied and installed. The technical offer must include all technical data of the offered 2 hybrid scanner sets, a valid manufacturer’s certificate of authorised representation, and the delivery time if it is shorter than 3 months. The bidder must also confirm that the offer price is submitted in the required structure.