Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that the company, its management and supervisory board members, and its representatives are not subject to exclusion grounds. The checks cover, among other matters, participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and the use of child labour or other forms of human trafficking.
Payment of taxes and social security contributions is also checked. The tax and social security debt condition is stated with a threshold of EUR 0; in Estonia, the tax authority does not issue a tax debt certificate where the debt is below EUR 100 or payment has been deferred. The bidder must be able to prove that its taxes and contributions have been paid or allow the contracting authority to obtain the relevant information.
The exclusion grounds also cover bankruptcy, liquidation or another insolvency situation, breaches of environmental, social or labour law, serious professional misconduct, anti-competitive agreements, conflicts of interest, serious previous contract breaches, and the submission of false information or failure to provide required documents. The bidder must also confirm that it is not subject to international sanctions and does not enable an unlawfully staying foreign national to work.
The bidder must also take subcontractor-related exclusion grounds into account. First-tier subcontractors will be checked; second-tier and subsequent subcontractors will not be checked, and subcontractors are not required to submit a European Single Procurement Document. Where applicable, the bidder may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability.