Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither it nor persons with management, representation or control authority have received a final conviction during the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism, money laundering, terrorist financing, unlawful child labour or other forms of human trafficking. The exclusion grounds also cover tax or social security payment arrears, breaches of environmental, social or labour law, bankruptcy or other insolvency, liquidation, assets being administered by a liquidator or court, suspended business activity, serious professional misconduct, agreements distorting competition, conflicts of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement, serious breaches of previous contracts, and the submission of false information or failure to provide required documents. National grounds also include enabling an unlawfully staying foreign national to work, conviction for tax offences, the risk of breaching an international or Government sanction, and prohibited bidder origin or location. The stated threshold for tax and social security payment breaches is EUR 0; under the applicable rules, a tax authority may not issue a tax-debt certificate for certain debts below EUR 100 or rescheduled tax debts. Where an exclusion ground exists, the bidder may in certain cases submit evidence of remedial measures restoring its reliability. During contract performance, the contracting authority will check the absence of the grounds under Section 95(1) of the Public Procurement Act for first-tier subcontractors named by the successful bidder; subcontractors do not have to submit a European Single Procurement Document.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered, where required by its national law, in the business register of an EU Member State, an EEA contracting state or a member state of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement. The registration must be confirmed in the European Single Procurement Document and a valid registration certificate must be provided upon request; a bidder registered in Estonia need not provide a copy if the information is publicly available.
The bidder must have achieved an annual net turnover of at least EUR 5,000,000 excluding VAT in the construction works field in each of the last three completed financial years, namely 2023, 2024 and 2025. Turnover information must be provided in the European Single Procurement Document, with extracts from annual accounts or other evidence supplied upon request.
During the 60 months preceding the start of the procurement, the bidder must have properly completed at least 2 contracts for construction of railway traffic-control modular buildings or similar modular buildings. The works must have been accepted and must not have involved material breaches. The European Single Procurement Document must describe the contract scope, dates and other contracting parties; a client confirmation or other evidence of proper performance must be supplied upon request.
If relying on another entity’s capacity, the bidder must provide information about that entity and submit that entity’s European Single Procurement Document. Upon request, the bidder must provide the consent required by Annex 5.1. An entity whose turnover is relied upon must provide financial resources where necessary and be jointly liable with the bidder for proper performance of the contract. A relied-upon entity must make its resources available and may participate directly in performance at least to the extent to which its capacity is relied upon.
The tender must be unconditional and comply with all tender documents. The bidder must submit the participation application using Annex 2 and provide the price in euros both in the structure required by the procurement register and in the price schedule in Annex 7. The price schedule may not be altered or supplemented with comments. In the event of a discrepancy, the unit price prevails, and where the total price differs, the VAT-exclusive total calculated in Annex 7 prevails.
For furniture, all wood must come from legal sources, with evidence such as an FSC certificate or a FLEGT or CITES licence provided upon delivery. REACH candidate substances exceeding 0.1% by mass must be declared, together with evidence of their presence or absence. Furniture must be dismantleable and repairable using hand tools, and dismantling and repair instructions must be supplied. The warranty must last at least 2 years from delivery, cover repair and, where necessary, a replacement product, and spare parts or functionally equivalent elements must remain available for at least 2 years after delivery. The contract must not breach an international or Government sanction. For a joint tender, a power of attorney signed by all joint bidders must be submitted using Annex 4; any trade secret and its justification must be identified, and equivalence must be explained and evidenced where used.