Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds. A bidder must confirm that none of the mandatory exclusion grounds apply, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering, child labour and other listed grounds. If an exclusion ground exists, the bidder may, where allowed, provide evidence of self-cleaning. The machine-readable notice does not provide a complete plain-language list of every ground, so the official tender documents must be checked.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have completed at least one service contract or project during the 36 months before the start of the procurement in which language-technology analysis, language-technology experiments or development of language-technology solutions was carried out, for example AI in language learning, speech-technology integration or language-data analysis. For at least one qualifying contract or project, the bidder must provide a short description, the performance period, the client’s name and the procurement reference number or, if unavailable, the client’s contact details. If the contract or project resulted from a procurement procedure, the procurement reference number must also be provided. A framework agreement is not accepted as a reference by itself, but a contract concluded under a framework agreement may be used to prove qualification if it meets the stated conditions. The bidder must submit the team composition and requirements on the form provided by the contracting authority, together with a signed experience form for each team member. For the speech-recognition expert and the E2 teacher/methodologist, a copy of the education certificate must also be submitted. The bid must also include the project scope and schedule description. The bid must comply with the tender documents, and the bid price must be submitted in the required structure.