Compliance requirements
The bidder must state the country where it is registered. The contracting authority will exclude bidders originating from third countries. A third country is a country that is not a European Union or European Economic Area member state, a party to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement, or a country with which the European Union has a reciprocal free trade agreement covering public procurement. The bidder must verify its eligibility to participate against the relevant official lists before submitting a tender.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s annual sales revenue must be at least EUR 430,000 in each of the last three completed financial years, ending at least six months before the procurement procedure began. The bidder must provide its sales revenue for 2025, 2024 and 2023; for bidders established outside Estonia, the contracting authority may request signed financial statements or equivalent evidence. The bidder must also have delivered at least one process monitoring and control system for mechanical stamping presses within the 36 months preceding publication of the contract notice. The reference must include the customer’s name and contact details, a brief description of the delivered device, and the month and year when the works were accepted. The tender must include the completed technical requirements form in Annex 1 and the technical specifications. It must comply with all procurement document requirements, follow the required price structure and, where applicable, include an explanation of equivalence and supporting evidence. Joint tenderers must appoint an authorized representative from among themselves and submit a power of attorney. The bidder must accept the payment terms and contractual penalty provisions set out in the procurement documents and describe any trade secrets or confirm that the tender contains none. For a technical fault, the bidder must respond within three working days and, where necessary during the warranty period, send a technician to the buyer’s production premises within ten working days. The warranty must last at least 12 months from acceptance of the works, be included in the total tender price, remain valid without an additional service agreement and not depend on the number of machine shifts or operating hours.