Compliance requirements
The tenderer must not be subject to the mandatory exclusion grounds listed in the procurement documents, including convictions for organised crime, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; offences related to illegal employment of foreigners or child labour and trafficking in human beings; tax, duty or social security arrears; or a situation where the contract would breach an international or Government of the Republic sanction.
The contracting authority may also exclude a tenderer for the optional grounds listed in the documents, such as breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations, bankruptcy or liquidation, serious professional misconduct, local tax arrears, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, prior serious contract breaches, false information, attempts to influence the contracting authority, tax offences, or lack of the right to submit a tender.
If the tenderer relies on another undertaking’s resources, the same declaration on the absence of exclusion grounds must also be provided for that undertaking.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The tenderer must prove that it has not seriously breached administrative contracts concluded with it. In a joint tender, all joint tenderers must meet this requirement.
There must be no circumstances concerning the tenderer that could lead to its persistent insolvency or cessation of business. This requirement also applies to all joint tenderers.
The tenderer’s experience must be shown by one of two alternatives: between 1 January 2023 and the publication date of the contract notice, it has delivered computer skills training within formal education, or during the same period it has delivered group computer training totalling at least 160 contact teaching hours. The contracting authority does not count computer-use guidance provided as part of a work practice or job club service ordered by the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund.
The tenderer must submit the prescribed qualification data and indicate whether it relies on another entity’s resources to meet the qualification requirement. If it does, the required declaration on the absence of exclusion grounds must also be provided for that entity.