Estonian tourism B2B promotion service in target markets

The bidder must confirm that neither the bidder nor its management, administrative or supervisory body members or representatives have been finally convicted within the last five years of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering, terrorist financing, child labour or human trafficking offences. Compliance with tax and social security payment obligations is also checked. The threshold for tax or social security debt is EUR 0, although the tax authority does not issue a certificate for a debt below EUR 100 or for a rescheduled tax debt. The exclusion grounds also cover breaches of environmental, social and labour law obligations; bankruptcy or other insolvency situations; liquidation; administration of assets by a liquidator or court; suspended business activity; serious professional misconduct; anti-competitive agreements; conflicts of interest; involvement in preparing the procurement; serious breaches of previous public contracts; and the submission of false information or failure to provide required documents. National grounds also cover enabling the employment of unlawfully staying foreign nationals, being subject to international sanctions, tax offences and lacking the legal right to submit a tender. The bidder must provide the required self-declarations in the ESPD and, where relevant, describe the breach, submit evidence and explain the measures taken to restore reliability.

The machine-readable ESPD does not specify a separate precise turnover, previous-experience or professional-certification requirement. Under the compliance requirements, for each target-market lot the bidder must provide the number of wholesalers, tour operators and/or destination management companies in its client base and submit the reference letters required under section 7.2 of Annex 2 to the procurement documents. A team description complying with section 5.7 of Annex 1 must also be submitted as a free-form document. For a joint tender, the bidder must attach a power of attorney appointing an authorised representative of the joint tenderers. The tender must identify the contract signatory, the basis of representation and the contact person responsible for contract performance. The bidder must describe any trade secrets and justify their protection; the tender price and numerical figures characterising the tender against the award criteria may not be designated as trade secrets. The bidder must confirm that it will not use, for more than 10% of the contract value, subcontractors or suppliers that are Russian nationals, residents or entities established in Russia, or entities owned or controlled by such persons or acting on their instructions. The exact submission format and evidence requirements in the ESPD and tender must be checked in the procurement documents before submission.