Compliance requirements
The tender documents include the standard exclusion grounds for criminal organisation participation, corruption, fraud and other mandatory grounds. The bidder or its management, administrative or supervisory body members, or persons authorised to represent, decide for or control the bidder must not have final convictions within the last five years for the listed offences, unless the exclusion period has expired. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may provide evidence of self-cleaning measures where allowed. The machine-readable notice did not include the full list of exclusion grounds; they must be checked in the official tender documents.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must have a valid licence to provide audit services, which the contracting authority will verify in the public register at www.audiitortegevus.ee. The audit team must include a person with the professional qualification of a public-sector sworn auditor. In addition, the sworn auditor, audit firm partner and/or audit project manager must have audited at least 2 local government units or units under the controlling influence of a local government within the last five years, and the annual revenue shown in those entities’ annual accounts for the audited year must have been at least EUR 30,000,000. The bidder must submit the data on Form 1.