Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the applicable exclusion grounds apply to the bidder or its relevant representatives. These grounds include convictions for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour or human trafficking; tax or social security payment debts; breaches of environmental, social or labour-law obligations; bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation or similar financial distress; administration of assets by a liquidator or court; suspended business activities; serious professional misconduct; anti-competitive agreements; conflicts of interest; involvement in preparing the procurement that creates an advantage; serious or repeated breaches of previous public contracts resulting in early termination, damages or sanctions; and false, misleading or missing information or failure to provide requested documents. The bidder must also confirm compliance with the national exclusion grounds concerning unlawful employment of foreign nationals, international sanctions, tax-related convictions and any restriction based on the bidder's place of establishment. The bidder must be able to provide the required confirmations and, where requested, supporting evidence. Where permitted, information about remedial measures restoring reliability may also be submitted. The bidder must additionally confirm that it will not use subcontractors or suppliers representing more than 10% of the contract value if they are Russian nationals, residents or entities established in Russia, entities more than 50% owned by such persons or entities, or persons acting on their behalf or under their instructions.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The machine-readable notice does not specify financial turnover, previous-project experience, personnel or professional-certification thresholds. The bidder must nevertheless demonstrate compliance with the tender documents and submit a fully compliant tender; conditional tenders are not permitted. The bidder must provide details of authorised representatives who are entitled to represent, decide for or control the company and who are not visible in the Commercial Register. Joint bidders must appoint an authorised representative and include the relevant power of attorney with the tender. If the bidder relies on other entities or uses subcontractors, the required information about those entities must be provided. The bidder and any subcontractors or relied-on entities must be established in Estonia, another EU Member State, an EEA contracting state or a country party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement. The communications service provider must have the lines, facilities and technical equipment needed to provide the services, compliant with the Electronic Communications Act, and must be ready to carry out additional development work to ensure a high-quality and legally compliant service. The tender price must follow the prescribed structure, all price fields must be completed, negative values are not allowed, and the detailed price must be submitted in euros to four decimal places. The total price excluding VAT in the detailed price form must match the price entered in the procurement register; if the amounts differ, the amount in the detailed price form prevails. The bidder may indicate the additional services it offers using the prescribed additional-services list. The bidder must also describe any trade secrets and justify their classification; the price and other prohibited evaluation-related numerical information may not be classified as trade secrets.