Compliance requirements
The contracting authority will exclude a bidder if any mandatory exclusion ground applies to the bidder or to a person representing, managing or controlling the bidder, including convictions for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, illegal employment of a foreign national, child labour or human trafficking, or if the bidder has tax, public charge or social security contribution arrears under the law of its country of establishment.
The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder if it has seriously or persistently breached an earlier public contract, leading to termination, withdrawal, price reduction, damages or contractual penalties, or if it has provided false information about compliance with qualification requirements or failed to submit the required data or additional documents.
The machine-readable notice did not include any other exclusion grounds; the official tender documents should be checked for full details.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have, during the 60 months before the start of the procurement, properly performed at least three contracts for electrical construction works similar to the subject of the contract. At least one of those contracts must have had a value of at least EUR 40,000 excluding VAT.
The bidder must submit a list of the contracts showing the performance period, the other contracting parties and, in public procurement cases, the reference numbers. On request, the bidder must provide evidence that the similar electrical construction contracts were properly performed, unless the contracting authority can obtain the information from public or its own databases without significant cost.
The bid must comply with the tender documents. The bid price must be submitted in a table in the prescribed form, and all unit price fields must be completed.
The bidder’s team must include:
- a person with valid switching authorisations, entered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before the opening of tenders; if only low-voltage works are procured, at least low-voltage switching authorisations are sufficient, otherwise both low-voltage and medium-voltage switching authorisations are required;
- a person designated as responsible for work operations, entered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before the deadline for submitting tenders;
- a person leading electrical works with a valid A-competence or, within the meaning of the Vocational Education Act, a qualification corresponding to at least level 6, who has the relevant proof at the time of submission and is entered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before the deadline for submitting tenders.
The bidder must provide the names, job titles and contact details of the contract signatory or signatories and the contact person for contract performance matters. If the right of representation does not arise from the articles of association, a power of attorney must be included.
If the bidder joins the contracting authority’s factoring programme, the payment term is 95 calendar days from receipt of the invoice; otherwise the standard payment terms are 14, 35 or 45 calendar days depending on the contract value.
The bidder must also confirm that the required team members are entered in the partner portal by the required deadline and that the bid complies with the conditions set out in the tender documents.