Mentoring service for staff of substitute homes and family homes for the Social Insurance Board (repeat procurement)

Exclusion may apply if the bidder, or a member of its representative, management or supervisory body, has been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences or related activities, money laundering or terrorist financing, or unlawful use of child labour or human trafficking. In general, convictions from the previous five years or an exclusion period that is still in force are relevant. Exclusion may also apply for unpaid taxes or social security contributions, employing a foreign national residing in the country without legal grounds, or breaching the conditions for a foreign national’s employment in Estonia. A tax-debt certificate is not issued in certain cases, including where the debt is below EUR 100 or payment has been deferred. Exclusion also applies if awarding the contract would breach an international or Estonian sanction, or if the bidder is not entitled to submit a bid because of a place-of-establishment restriction set out in the procurement documents. Where an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability if self-cleaning is permitted for this procurement. The contracting authority checks sanction-related grounds on the basis of the bidder’s declaration and may request additional information or evidence where there is a justified concern.

The bidder must identify the coordinator/project manager who will take part in performing the contract and describe how it will assemble, after contract award, a team meeting point 5 of the technical description. The team must comprise staff from at least ten different substitute or family homes, and the bidder must confirm that it is ready to provide mentoring services at all substitute and family homes in Estonia. For a joint bid, the bidder must include an authorisation appointing a representative to act for the joint bidders. The bid must identify and justify any information claimed as a trade secret; the bid price and figures relevant to the award criteria may not be classified as trade secrets. The bid must comply with the procurement documents, be unconditional, and present the price in the prescribed format. The documents provided do not specify other financial or previous-experience qualification criteria or award criteria.