Compliance requirements
The bidder must confirm that none of the mandatory exclusion grounds apply. These include specified convictions involving the bidder or its representatives for participation in a criminal organisation, breaches of integrity or corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing; convictions relating to illegal employment of foreign nationals or breaches of rules on their employment conditions, including underpayment; offences involving unlawful child labour or human trafficking; outstanding taxes, duties or environmental charges, or tax or social-security contributions owed under the law of the bidder’s country; and applicable international sanctions.
The contracting authority may also exclude a bidder for breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations; bankruptcy, liquidation, suspended business or a similar situation; serious professional misconduct; anti-competitive agreements or concerted practices; an unmanageable conflict of interest; an unfair competitive advantage arising from involvement in preparing the procurement; significant or repeated failure to perform an earlier public contract; false or withheld information concerning qualification or requested documents; attempts to improperly influence the contracting authority or obtain confidential information; convictions for tax offences; or lack of the legal right to submit a bid. The bidder must also confirm that it is not established in Russia or Belarus.
Qualification criteria and exclusion grounds
The bidder’s net turnover must have been at least EUR 500,000 in each of the last three completed financial years. The bidder must provide extracts from the annual accounts for those years showing net turnover, unless the information is publicly available to the contracting authority from a register for a bidder registered in Estonia. If the financial year does not coincide with the calendar year, the requirement applies to the last three 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 duly performed at least three contracts for electrical construction works similar to the subject of this procurement. At least one contract must have had a value of EUR 350,000 or more, excluding VAT. The bidder must submit a list showing each contract’s performance period, the other contracting party’s details (including a contact person’s telephone number and email address) and, for public contracts, the procurement reference number. Evidence of proper performance must be provided if requested, unless the contracting authority can obtain it from databases without significant cost.
The bidder’s team must include a person with valid switching authorisations for the switching operations required for the works on the 0.22–20 kV electricity network, registered in Elektrilevi’s Partner Portal before bids are opened. For low-voltage works only (0.22–1 kV), low-voltage switching authorisation is sufficient. Otherwise, both low- and medium-voltage switching authorisations are required, including where low-voltage works require switching on the medium-voltage side (above 1–20 kV). The team must also include a person appointed as responsible for the work operation and registered in the Partner Portal before the bid submission deadline, and a person leading electrical works who holds valid A-class competence and/or a qualification of at least level 6, has the relevant evidence by the bid submission date and is registered in the Portal before the deadline.
The bid must accept all tender-document conditions without additions or conditional terms. The bidder must complete every unit-price field in the price table using the prescribed form. It must provide details and evidence of authority for the contract signatory, identify a contact person for contract-performance matters, and include a power of attorney if the signatory’s authority does not arise from the articles of association. Joint bidders must appoint an authorised representative and provide the relevant power of attorney. The bidder must state whether the bid contains trade secrets and justify any such designation; the bid price and evaluation-related figures may not be classified as trade secrets.
The bidder must confirm that it is not established in Russia or Belarus. Materials, equipment, goods and components installed or used during the works must not be produced in or originate from Russia or Belarus; the contracting authority may request certificates of origin. The prescribed standard payment period depends on the contract value: 14 calendar days up to EUR 59,999; 35 days from EUR 60,000 to EUR 249,999; and 45 days from EUR 250,000. Participation in the contracting authority’s factoring programme instead results in a 95-calendar-day payment period.