Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the exclusion grounds under Section 95(1)(1)–(5) of the Estonian Public Procurement Act apply to it. This means, among other things, that neither the company nor members of its management bodies may have been convicted of offences related to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, money laundering, terrorism, human trafficking or illegal use of child labour; the company must not have tax debts or social security contribution debts; and concluding the contract must not violate an international sanction or a sanction of the Government of the Republic. The machine-readable notice did not include more detailed exclusion grounds; they must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must submit a copy of its professional liability insurance policy or a written confirmation from the insurer that the insurance contract will be concluded no later than 1 month after contract award in an amount of at least EUR 30,000. In the 60 months before the start of the procurement, the bidder must have properly performed at least 2 contracts of similar scope, each with a performance value of at least EUR 30,000 excluding VAT; similar work means construction, maintenance repair and emergency works carried out in commercial, warehouse and/or industrial buildings and structures. The bidder must have a qualified person responsible for the works: a site supervisor/foreman with a professional qualification of property technical maintenance master at least level 5, construction engineer at least level 6, construction site manager at least level 5 or construction manager at least level 6. In addition, before the works start, the contractor must involve a supervisor with a valid class A competence certificate for work in restricted-access electrical and electro-technical rooms, person(s) with a valid permit/certificate for hot works, person(s) with relevant vocational training for welding works, and person(s) with relevant vocational education for sanitary engineering works. The tender may be submitted only as an unconditional bid, and the bidder must confirm that it complies with the tender documents. Before submitting the bid, the bidder must visit the contract performance site. As a special contract condition, the contractor or subcontractor staff must undergo the client’s background check before work starts, and their wages must be at least 70% of the average gross wage in the relevant EMTAK sector; every 6 months a certificate of average wages for public construction procurements issued by the Tax and Customs Board or another competent authority must be submitted. If a joint bid is submitted, a power of attorney from the joint bidders must be attached.