Compliance requirements
The bidder must not be subject to exclusion grounds relating to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, or the illegal use of child labour or human trafficking. The checks cover the bidder and its administrative, management or supervisory body members, procurator and other persons authorised to represent, decide for or control the bidder; the relevant period is generally a final conviction within the last five years or an exclusion obligation that is still in force.
The bidder must not have breached its obligations to pay taxes or social security contributions. The bidder must also not have enabled an unlawfully staying foreign national to work or breached the conditions for employing a foreign national in Estonia, including by paying less than the statutory wage. Awarding the contract must not violate an international or Estonian sanction.
The bidder must provide the confirmations required in the ESPD. If an exclusion ground applies, evidence of remedial measures may be submitted for a contract above the international threshold, or where this is provided for in the tender documents.