Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither the bidder nor its representatives, management or supervisory body members, or other persons with powers of representation, decision-making or control are subject to mandatory exclusion grounds. The checks cover, among other matters, participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and the use of child labour or other forms of human trafficking. Compliance with tax and social security payment obligations, rules on employing unlawfully staying foreign nationals and international sanctions is also checked. Where relevant, the bidder must provide details of persons whose representation, decision-making or control powers are not recorded in the commercial register. If an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may describe remedial measures taken to restore its reliability and provide supporting evidence, where self-cleaning is permitted in this procurement.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must complete the electronic European Single Procurement Document and submit the required confirmations and documents with the tender. The bidder must form an expert team with the competences necessary to perform the work and provide signed CVs, using the form in Annex 2 to the general part of the procurement documents, describing the previous experience of each participating expert. The submitted text does not specify the exact team composition, experience scope or thresholds; these must be checked in section 7 of the general procurement documents and the tender documents. The tender must include a project plan containing the methodology and description of results, a list and description of activities, a schedule, the team composition and responsibilities with reasons for selecting the team members, and a risk analysis with mitigation measures. The tender must comply with all tender document requirements, conditional tenders are not permitted, and the price must be submitted according to the structure provided in the evaluation sheet. Where equivalence is offered, it must be explained and supported by evidence. For a joint tender, a power of attorney for the joint tenderers must be included. If the tender is signed by a person whose authority is not shown in the commercial register, the bidder must also provide a power of attorney for that person. The bidder must identify and justify any trade secrets or state that the tender contains no trade secrets; the tender price and other prohibited numerical indicators may not be classified as trade secrets.