Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither it nor its management, supervisory or controlling bodies, procurists or other persons authorised to represent it have been finally convicted within the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, money laundering or terrorist financing, the use of child labour or other forms of trafficking in human beings, participation in a criminal organisation, commission of a terrorist act or offences related to terrorist activity, or any other exclusion grounds listed in the ESPD. If an exclusion ground applies, the company may submit evidence of self-cleaning and restored reliability where permitted. For each relevant ground, the ESPD requires a yes/no answer and, where applicable, the date of conviction, the reason, the convicted person, the duration of exclusion, self-cleaning measures and a reference to electronic evidence. The bidder must also confirm that it will not use a subcontractor that must be replaced under Section 122(7) of the Public Procurement Act.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have properly performed at least 3 similar construction contracts completed during the last 60 months, where the subject was the construction or reconstruction of a building. Similar works also include projects involving technical systems and food-processing, laboratory or other buildings of comparable technical complexity. For each contract, the bidder must provide a list of projects with the client’s contact details; if the contract was awarded through public procurement, the procurement reference number must also be provided. On request, the bidder must submit a client confirmation that the works were performed properly. The bidder must engage two separate roles: a project manager and a site manager. Both must hold at least the qualification of a chartered civil engineer, EQF level 7, or equivalent, and the same person may not fill both roles. The bid must comply with the tender documents, be unconditional, and be submitted together with the required price table. The bidder must also confirm a warranty of at least 36 months for the works, provide warranty-period security, and repair or replace defects as quickly as possible, within the maximum time required by the tender documents. In addition, the bidder must confirm timely performance and consent to set-off if delay is caused by the bidder. The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification, suitability or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.