Purchase of an electric frontline fire engine with warranty-period scheduled maintenance, emergency repairs and spare parts

The bidder must confirm that neither it nor its management, administrative or supervisory body members or representatives have been finally convicted during the last five years of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, or child labour or human trafficking offences. Exclusion grounds also cover failure to pay taxes or social security contributions, bankruptcy or insolvency and liquidation proceedings, assets being administered by a liquidator or court, suspended business activities, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive agreements, unresolved conflicts of interest, and material breaches or early termination of previous public contracts. Exclusion may also result from submitting false information, failing to provide required information or documents, or improperly influencing the contracting authority’s decision-making process. National grounds may apply, including enabling an unlawfully staying foreign national to work, breaches of international sanctions, tax offences and unlawful participation in the procurement. The bidder must provide the declarations required in the ESPD and, where applicable, supporting evidence; where an exclusion ground exists, the contracting authority may assess remedial measures restoring the bidder’s reliability where permitted.

The bidder must have properly completed the production and sale of at least one new rescue vehicle during the 60 months preceding the start of the procurement. Eligible vehicles include a frontline fire engine, a pump-equipped tanker, or a pump-equipped aerial ladder or rescue platform vehicle. The experience must be described in the ESPD with the contract or transaction, value, dates, contracting party and the bidder’s area of responsibility; the contracting authority may verify the information with the other party. No additional evidence of this experience must be submitted with the tender beyond the ESPD, but the successful bidder may be asked to provide evidence for verification. By the time the vehicle is handed over at the latest, the bidder must provide in mainland Estonia an authorised or manufacturer-approved service point for the base vehicle, staffed by qualified personnel, and at least one service point or mobile service unit for the superstructure and rescue equipment. External service points or other participating entities must be identified in the tender as consortium members or subcontractors, and ESPDs must be submitted for them. A consortium tender must include a power of attorney for the consortium representative. The tender must fully comply with the procurement documents, remain valid for three calendar months, and must not be conditional. The bidder must provide, among other things, a preliminary vehicle drawing, the base-vehicle and superstructure manufacturers and models, a list of rescue-equipment manufacturers and models, descriptions of corrosion-protection solutions, a product sheet for the pump and CAFS system, and the required 15-year maintenance schedules and price lists. The vehicle must have a warranty of at least 24 months and the traction batteries a warranty of at least 60 months; the battery warranty period is an award criterion. Maintenance, spare-part and emergency-repair prices and the related confirmations must also be provided. The base-vehicle manufacturer’s quality-management system must comply with EVS-EN ISO 9001 or an equivalent standard, supported by a copy of a certificate issued by an independent body. The proposed goods must not be subject to international sanctions or originate from sanctioned areas, and subcontractors or suppliers covered by the Russian sanctions restrictions may not account for more than 10% of the contract value.