Compliance requirements
The bidder must not be subject to exclusion grounds relating to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism, money laundering, terrorist financing, illegal child labour or other forms of human trafficking. Compliance with tax and social security payment obligations, environmental, social and labour law obligations, and the absence of bankruptcy or other insolvency, liquidation, suspended business activity, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest and unfair advantages arising from involvement in the preparation of the procurement are also checked. Exclusion may also result from serious previous contract breaches, false statements, failure to provide required information or documents, improper influence on the decision-making process, offences concerning the employment of unlawfully staying foreign nationals, applicable international or national sanctions, local tax debt owed in the contracting authority's location, tax offences or a legal restriction on participation. The bidder must provide the confirmations required in the ESPD; where an exclusion ground exists, evidence of remedial measures may be submitted in certain circumstances.