Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the mandatory exclusion grounds apply. These include relevant convictions of the bidder or its authorised representatives for participation in a criminal organisation, breach of integrity obligations, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; enabling unlawful employment or breaches of foreign workers’ employment conditions, including payment below the statutory wage rate; illegal child labour or human trafficking; outstanding state taxes, duties or environmental charges, or tax and social security debts under the law of the bidder’s country; and circumstances in which awarding the contract would breach an international or government sanction. The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for serious or persistent breaches of previous public contracts, or for submitting false information or failing to provide required information or additional documents. The bidder must submit the required confirmations using the prescribed confirmation form. In a joint tender, every joint bidder must submit the applicable confirmations.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must be registered in the commercial register of an EU Member State, an EEA contracting state or a WTO Government Procurement Agreement member country, where registration is required under the law of its country of establishment. A valid registry certificate must be provided at the contracting authority’s request; bidders established in Estonia do not need to submit a copy if the information is publicly available in the register. The bidder’s net turnover in the sale of electrical goods must have been at least EUR 200,000 excluding VAT in each of the last three financial years completed before the start of the procurement, namely 2023, 2024 and 2025. If the financial year does not run from 1 January to 31 December, the corresponding financial-year figures must be provided. The bidder must submit the turnover data and, if requested, an annual report extract or other evidence. If the bidder relies on another entity’s economic, financial, technical or professional capacity, it must identify that entity and submit the required confirmations for it. The bidder must also have sales offices at least in Tallinn and Tartu and submit their addresses and contact details. It must have a website containing information about the products and enable orders by email, providing the website link and confirmation. The tender must include the participation application, the required sanction confirmation and, where applicable, a power of attorney signed by all joint bidders. Conditional tenders are not permitted. The bidder must offer a discount percentage from the current retail price list, which will be binding throughout the framework agreement. The tender must comply with the procurement documents; any claimed equivalence must be explained and supported by evidence.