Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the mandatory exclusion grounds apply. These include relevant convictions of the bidder or its representatives for organised crime, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; offences involving unlawful employment of foreign nationals or child labour and human trafficking; outstanding tax, social security or environmental-charge debts; and being subject to international sanctions.
The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations; insolvency, liquidation or suspended business activity; serious professional misconduct; anti-competitive conduct; an unmanageable conflict of interest or an advantage arising from involvement in preparing the procurement; serious or repeated failure to perform previous public contracts; false or misleading information or failure to provide requested evidence; attempts to improperly influence the authority or obtain confidential information; convictions for tax offences; or lack of the legal right to submit a bid. The bidder must confirm that these grounds do not apply.
Businesses established in Russia or Belarus are not permitted to participate.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder must meet these financial, experience and compliance requirements:
- Net turnover must have been at least EUR 500,000 in each of the last three completed financial years. Submit extracts from the annual accounts showing turnover for those years. An Estonian-registered legal entity need not submit information that the contracting authority can access publicly from a register. Where the financial year does not match the calendar year, the requirement applies to the three most recently completed financial years. At least six months must have elapsed since the end of the most recently completed financial year by the bid submission date.
- During 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 this contract. At least one must have had a value of EUR 400,000 or more, excluding VAT. Submit a list stating the performance period, the other contracting parties and their representatives’ contact details, including telephone and email, and procurement reference numbers for public contracts. Evidence of proper performance must be provided on request unless the authority can obtain it from databases without significant cost.
- The team must include an employee with valid switching authorisations for the required work on the 0.22–20 kV electricity network, registered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before bids are opened. For low-voltage-only work (0.22–1 kV), low-voltage switching authorisation is sufficient. Otherwise, both low- and medium-voltage switching authorisations are required, including where low-voltage work requires switching on the medium-voltage side (over 1–20 kV). The relevant training and authorisations must follow instruction J387.
- The bidder must have a designated person responsible for work operations, registered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before the bid submission deadline. The applicable requirements are set out in instructions J31 and J3284.
- The team must include a person leading electrical work with valid A-level competence and/or a qualification of at least level 6 under the Vocational Qualifications Act. That person must hold evidence of the qualification and be registered in Elektrilevi’s partner portal before the bid submission deadline.
- The bid must include the price in the contracting authority’s price-table form, with every unit-price field completed. Conditional bids or bids containing additional conditions are not permitted. The bidder must provide details and proof of authority for the contract signatory, name a contract-performance contact, and submit a power of attorney if signing authority does not arise from the articles of association. Joint bidders must appoint an authorised representative and include a power of attorney.
- The bidder must accept the applicable payment terms: 14 calendar days for contracts up to EUR 59,999; 35 days for EUR 60,000–249,999; and 45 days for EUR 250,000 or more. Participation in the contracting authority’s factoring programme results in a 95-day payment period.
- Materials, equipment, goods and components installed or used in the works must not be produced in or originate from Russia or Belarus. The contracting authority may request certificates of origin.