Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither it nor the members of its management, representation or supervisory bodies have been finally convicted within the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud or other serious offences listed in the ESPD. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may submit evidence of self-cleaning measures where permitted. The bidder must also confirm payment of taxes and social security contributions or allow the contracting authority to verify this information from a public database.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
For the bid to be compliant, the bidder must confirm that it meets the requirements set out in the procurement documents and, where necessary, that equivalence has been explained and supporting evidence attached. In a joint tender, the bidder must submit a power of attorney and a confirmation of joint and several liability, as well as the application form according to Annex 6, Form II. The bid price must be submitted in the Excel form in Annex 4 and in the structure required on the sheet titled 'Award criteria and evaluated indicators'. If the bid contains trade secrets, they must be marked and justified, but the bid price and other numerical indicators used for evaluation may not be treated as trade secrets. The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or suitability requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.