Compliance requirements
The bidder must not be subject to any mandatory exclusion grounds. The contracting authority will exclude a bidder if the bidder, or a member of its management, representation or supervisory body, a proxy, or another person authorised to represent, decide for, or control the company, has been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, breach of integrity duties, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; enabling illegal employment or violating the conditions for employing a foreign national; illegal use of child labour or human trafficking; if the bidder has tax, fee or environmental charge arrears, or tax or social security contribution arrears under the law of its country of establishment; or if concluding the contract would breach an international sanction or a sanction of the Government of the Republic. The bidder must confirm that none of these exclusion grounds apply.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have at least one designer who, during the 36 months preceding the start of the procurement, has delivered to the client at least 5 construction projects submitted on time and accepted without significant technical defects, and in which the land use for the designed utility network was legalised on at least two different cadastral units. This must be evidenced by a properly completed designer reference form (Form 2). For compliance, the tender must include a completed unit-price table with all unit price fields filled in in euros excluding VAT; partial or incorrect completion may lead to the tender being declared non-compliant. If the bidder is a joint bidder, an authorised representative must be appointed and a joint-bidder power of attorney must be attached. The bidder must confirm compliance with the procurement documents and, where necessary, provide an explanation of equivalence and supporting evidence. The bidder must also provide the names of the contract signatory(ies) and the contact person, choose the standard payment term or the 95-day term linked to the factoring programme, use the EPP portal for invoicing, and state whether subprocessors are used in personal data processing.