Compliance requirements
The bidder must not have the exclusion grounds listed in Section 95(1) points 1–5 and Section 95(4) point 12 of the Public Procurement Act. The bidder must confirm the absence of these grounds in the public procurement register.
If there are other persons in the bidder’s company who are authorised to represent the company, make decisions on its behalf or control it, and who are not visible to the contracting authority from the commercial register card, the bidder must provide the authorised person’s name and personal identification code, or confirm that no such persons exist.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have, within the 36 months before the deadline for publication of the contract notice, at least 1 completed contract under which it carried out technical condition surveys of port structures worth at least EUR 20,000 excluding VAT. If the contract lasted longer than the 36-month reference period, only the part completed within that period counts. The completed contract details must be submitted on the form provided by the contracting authority (Annex 3).
The person responsible for the technical surveys must hold at least a Level 7 professional qualification as a chartered civil engineer with specialisation in port construction, in the profession of design of port structures or design management, or an equivalent qualification. If the professional standard becomes invalid, the person must meet the new equivalent standard. The responsible person’s details must be provided and, if necessary, copies of documents proving the qualification must be attached.
If the bidder relies on the capacities of another company, the bidder must submit that company’s consent and, where necessary, indicate the subcontractor and the reliance in the tender. In the case of a joint tender, information on the size and nature of each joint tenderer’s share of performance must also be provided. Apart from this, the machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.