Travel management services for Tartu Health Care College

The bidder must confirm that neither the bidder nor its management, supervisory body members, authorised representatives or other persons controlling the bidder have been convicted within the last five years, or remain subject to an exclusion period, for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering, terrorist financing, child labour or human trafficking. The bidder must also confirm compliance with tax and social security payment obligations. Exclusion grounds additionally cover breaches of environmental, social or labour law, bankruptcy, insolvency or liquidation proceedings, arrangements with creditors, comparable insolvency situations, administration of assets by a liquidator or court, suspended business activities, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement, serious or repeated failures under previous public contracts, false or misleading information, failure to provide required information or documents, and attempts to obtain confidential information or improperly influence the contracting authority. National exclusion grounds include enabling the employment of unlawfully staying foreign nationals, being subject to international sanctions, criminal tax offences and restrictions on the right to submit a tender. The bidder must provide the required confirmations and, where applicable, information and evidence concerning the relevant circumstances and any measures taken to restore reliability.

The machine-readable notice and the selected qualification document do not specify separate financial capacity, turnover, previous experience or personnel requirements. The bidder must nevertheless satisfy the compliance requirements in the tender documents and provide the required confirmations and information. The tender must be unconditional and confirm acceptance of all tender-document requirements. For a joint tender, the bidders must appoint an authorised representative and submit the relevant power of attorney. The bidder must identify authorised persons entitled to represent, decide for or control the company who are not visible in the commercial register, or confirm that no such persons exist. By the time the framework agreement is signed, the service provider must hold accreditation issued by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) or an equivalent organisation; the IATA code may be submitted with the tender to facilitate verification. The bidder must confirm that it can provide the travel management service in accordance with the technical description and framework agreement, including free customer support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including holidays, with access to booking systems and a dedicated telephone number. The bidder must comply with the environmental requirements for accommodation and, when requested, provide the main transport mode, distance and greenhouse-gas emissions in CO2 equivalent based on the transport provider’s information and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol or an equivalent methodology. The bidder must also comply with the restrictions on subcontractors and suppliers: it may not use, for more than 10% of the contract value, entities covered by the applicable Russian sanctions restriction, and the subcontractors and suppliers used during contract performance must be established or resident in Estonia, another EU Member State, an EEA contracting state or a WTO Government Procurement Agreement member country.