Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither the company nor its relevant representatives have final convictions within the last five years, or an ongoing exclusion period, for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, or child labour and other forms of human trafficking. The bidder must also confirm compliance with tax and social security payment obligations and the absence of insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy or similar proceedings. Other exclusion grounds include serious professional misconduct, breaches of environmental, social or labour law obligations, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement, significant or repeated failures under previous public contracts, submission of false or incomplete information, failure to provide requested documents, and attempts to obtain confidential information or improperly influence the contracting authority. The bidder must also confirm that the contract would not breach international or Estonian sanctions, that it has not been convicted of enabling illegal employment of foreign nationals or tax offences, and that its registered office is not in Russia or Belarus. Where permitted, the bidder may provide evidence of remedial measures demonstrating renewed reliability.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must provide the proposed product's technical description, including all data required by the technical specifications, as well as the product name, specifications, product sheets and/or other information necessary to verify compliance. The bid must comply with the tender documents and may not be conditional. If equivalence is relied upon, the bidder must explain it and provide evidence of equivalence. The bidder must also provide information on authorised persons who can represent, control or make decisions for the company and who are not visible from the commercial register, or confirm that no such persons exist. No specific turnover, previous experience, staffing or certification thresholds were included in the provided machine-readable information; any additional requirements must be checked in the tender documents.