Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that neither the company nor its authorised representatives, management, supervisory or control body members, or procurator are subject to mandatory exclusion grounds. These include convictions for participation in a criminal organisation, breach of duty, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; enabling unlawful employment or breaches of foreign workers’ employment conditions, including underpayment; unlawful use of child labour or human trafficking. A bidder with outstanding national taxes, payments or environmental charges, or tax or social security debts under the law of its country of establishment, is also excluded, as is participation that would breach an international or Estonian government sanction. The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for serious or persistent breach of previous public contracts, or for providing false information or failing to submit required information or documents. The bidder must also confirm that its place of establishment is not in the Russian Federation or Belarus and that materials, equipment and goods used in the works, including components, are not produced in or originating from those countries; certificates of origin may be requested.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s net turnover must have been at least EUR 200,000 in each of the last three completed financial years. The bidder must provide extracts from the annual accounts for those three years showing the turnover, unless the information is publicly available to the contracting authority from a register. If the financial year does not coincide with the calendar year, the requirement applies to the three most recently completed financial years, and at least six months must have elapsed since the end of the latest completed financial year by the bid submission date. Within the 60 months preceding the start of the procurement, the bidder must have properly completed at least three contracts for electrical construction works similar to the contract subject, including at least one contract worth at least EUR 80,000 excluding VAT. A list of the contracts must include the performance period, the other contracting party’s details and the client representative’s contact information, including telephone number and email address; public procurement reference numbers must also be provided where applicable. Evidence of proper performance must be submitted upon request unless the contracting authority can obtain it from public or private databases without significant cost. The bidder must have a person leading electrical works with valid A-level competence and/or a qualification corresponding to at least level 6 under the Professional Qualifications Act, with the relevant evidence available by the bid submission date and the person registered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before bids are opened. The bidder must also have a person with valid switching authorisations for work-related switching in the 0.22–20 kV electricity network, registered in the partner portal before bids are opened. For work involving only low-voltage installations of 0.22–1 kV, at least low-voltage switching authorisation is required; otherwise both low- and medium-voltage switching authorisations are required, including where low-voltage work requires switching on the medium-voltage side above 1–20 kV. A person responsible for the work operation must also be appointed and registered in the partner portal before bids are opened. The bid must include the completed pricing table with all unit-price fields filled in, comply with all procurement document requirements, and contain no conditional or additional terms. Information about the authorised contract signatory and the contract-performance contact person must be provided; a power of attorney must be included if signing authority does not arise from the articles of association. The bidder must identify and justify any business secrets, but may not classify the bid price or other prohibited evaluation-related figures as business secrets. Standard payment periods are 14 calendar days for contracts up to EUR 59,999, 35 calendar days for contracts from EUR 60,000 to EUR 249,999, and 45 calendar days for contracts of EUR 250,000 or more; participation in the contracting authority’s factoring programme results in a 95-calendar-day payment period.