Compliance requirements
A bidder will be excluded if the bidder or its representative, management or supervisory board member, or procurist has a relevant conviction for serious offences, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism, money laundering or terrorist financing. Grounds for exclusion also include enabling the employment of an unlawfully staying foreign national or breaching the conditions for employing a foreign national, including paying below the required wage, as well as illegal child labour or human trafficking. The bidder must not have outstanding taxes, statutory payments or environmental charges, and entering into the contract must not breach international or Estonian sanctions. The bidder must confirm that no exclusion grounds apply and that it has reviewed the relevant rules and guidance published on the contracting authority’s website.