Compliance requirements
The machine-readable notice included standard exclusion grounds such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud and other mandatory grounds. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may have to provide evidence of self-cleaning where allowed. The bidder must also confirm the sanctions-related requirements: it may not involve, for more than 10% of the contract value, subcontractors, suppliers or supporting entities linked to Russian persons or entities as defined in the notice, and the offered goods must not be subject to international sanctions or originate from sanctioned areas. The exact exclusion grounds and confirmations must be checked in the tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must hold a valid community transport operating licence under Section 39(1) of the Public Transport Act and enter its number in the ESPD; the successful bidder must provide a copy on request. The bidder must have a person responsible for transport who meets the requirements of Articles 4, 6, 8 and 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1071/2009; the ESPD must state that person’s name, professional certificate number and issue date. The bidder, or the joint bidders as a whole, must have performed at least 1 passenger transport contract during the previous three years and must provide details including contract value, client or route-licence issuer, time and place of performance, and reference data that allow the contracting authority to request further information if needed. The tender must comply with all tender document requirements, conditional tenders are not allowed, and in a joint tender a power of attorney for the authorised representative must be attached. The machine-readable notice did not include any other precise qualification or compliance requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents.