Gender Equality Monitoring

The bidder must confirm that no applicable exclusion grounds exist. These include relevant convictions involving the bidder or its representatives, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering, human trafficking and unlawful use of child labour; outstanding tax or social security obligations; breaches of environmental, social or labour law; bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation or similar circumstances; serious professional misconduct; agreements intended to distort competition; unmanageable conflicts of interest; involvement in preparing the procurement; serious failures under previous contracts; false or withheld information, failure to provide requested documents or attempts to obtain confidential information improperly; enabling unlawful employment of foreign nationals; international sanctions; and tax offences. Where a relevant ground applies, the bidder may provide information about measures taken to demonstrate its reliability where the law and procurement documents allow this.

The provided documents do not set specific turnover, financial-capacity or previous-experience thresholds. The bidder must submit the project team’s composition, competence and roles using the prescribed form. The required level of competence and any further team requirements are described in the technical specification and should be checked there.