Purchase of an Automated Scanning Fluorescence Microscope

The tender passport requires declarations concerning exclusion grounds. These include relevant criminal convictions of the bidder or its representatives within the previous five years, including participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and child labour or human trafficking. Other grounds include unpaid taxes or social security contributions, insolvency or liquidation, suspended business activity, serious professional misconduct, agreements distorting competition, unmanageable conflicts of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement, serious or repeated failures under previous contracts, false or withheld information, failure to provide requested documents, and breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations. National grounds also cover enabling a person without lawful residence to work, tax offences, sanctions-related restrictions and restrictions on the bidder’s right to participate. The notice specifies a zero-euro threshold for tax and social security arrears; the accompanying explanation notes that an Estonian tax debt certificate is not issued where the relevant debt is below EUR 100 or payment has been rescheduled. The bidder may be asked to provide supporting information or evidence, and may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability where permitted.

No specific financial-capacity, turnover, prior-experience or staffing thresholds are stated in the provided documents. The bid must include a technical proposal identifying the equipment’s manufacturer and model and setting out the technical parameters needed to assess compliance with the technical specification. The bidder must offer new equipment, warrant it for at least one year from handover, and provide weekday technical support by email and telephone during the warranty period, including support contact details. The price must include delivery to the University of Tartu Institute of Chemistry at Ravila 14a, Tartu, on-site installation, operational testing and initial training for the buyer’s representatives. Delivery is due within three months of contract signature. The bid must remain valid for at least three months from the submission deadline. If the signatory’s authority is not evident from the relevant register, submit the prescribed power of attorney. Joint bidders must appoint an authorised representative, submit the required joint-bid authorisation and joint-liability confirmation, and provide a procurement passport for each bidder. The bidder must also make the required sanctions-related declarations, including those concerning the goods’ origin, ownership and entities involved in contract performance; the stated restriction applies to subcontractors, suppliers or relied-on entities accounting for more than 10% of the contract value where they fall within the specified Russia-related categories.