Food Products 2027–2029

The tenderer must confirm that neither it nor its representatives or members of its management or supervisory bodies have received a final conviction within the last five years for offences such as participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering, terrorist financing or the unlawful use of child labour. Compliance with tax and social security payment obligations is also checked; the stated threshold for an infringement is EUR 0. The exclusion grounds also cover, among other matters, bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings, liquidation, suspended business activities, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement, serious breaches of previous public contracts, and the submission of false information or failure to provide required documents. The tenderer must also confirm compliance with sanctions-related requirements, including that contract award would not breach international or Estonian sanctions. Detailed evidence and any remedial measures must be provided in the ESPD and, where required, at the contracting authority’s request.

The machine-readable notice did not include precise qualification or financial capacity requirements, such as turnover, experience, certificate or personnel requirements; these must be checked in the tender documents. To ensure tender compliance, the tenderer must submit the price form based on Annex 3 of the tender documents and must offer all products in the relevant product group for each selected lot. Tenders for individual products are not permitted. The tenderer must confirm that the supplied products comply with the requirements in Annexes 1, 2 and 3, that the goods are not subject to international sanctions and do not originate from sanctioned regions, and that the conditions concerning Council of Europe sanctions are met. In the case of a joint tender, a written authorisation allowing one tenderer to represent the other must be submitted. The tenderer must confirm that the tender remains valid for four months from the submission deadline and must provide a confirmation that the tender contains no trade secrets or, if it does, reasons substantiating the confidential treatment.