Compliance requirements
A bidder will be excluded if the bidder or a member of its administrative, management or supervisory body, its procurator or another authorised representative has been convicted of participation in a criminal organisation, breach of duty of integrity, corruption, fraud, terrorism, money laundering or terrorist financing offences. Exclusion also applies in cases involving enabling illegal employment, breaches of the conditions for employing a foreign national in Estonia, including payment below the required wage rate, illegal use of child labour or human trafficking. Further grounds include outstanding state tax, payment or environmental charge debts, tax or social security contribution debts, or the award of the contract would breach an international or Government of the Republic sanction. The bidder must submit a free-form declaration confirming that no exclusion grounds apply.