Design and construction works for a shelter at the Estonian Agricultural Museum

The bidder, its administrative, management or supervisory body members, and persons authorised to represent, make decisions for, or control the bidder must not have received a final conviction within the past five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activity, money laundering or terrorist financing, or the illegal use of child labour or human trafficking. Any current exclusion period must also be taken into account. In certain cases, the bidder may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability. Grounds for exclusion also include outstanding tax or social security contribution liabilities. The notice specifies a threshold of EUR 0 for tax arrears. According to the additional information, the Estonian tax authority does not issue an arrears certificate where the debt for taxes administered by that authority is below EUR 100 or payment has been deferred. For a foreign bidder, tax liabilities are assessed under the laws of its country of establishment. The bidder must not have breached the prohibition on enabling a foreign national residing in the country without a legal basis to work, or the conditions governing a foreign national’s employment in Estonia, including the minimum wage requirement. A contract will also not be awarded if doing so would breach an international sanction or a sanction imposed by the Republic of Estonia. The bidder must confirm that it will not involve subcontractors or suppliers accounting for more than 10% of the contract value, or rely on the capacity of entities for qualification, if they are Russian citizens or residents, entities established in Russia, entities more than 50% owned by such persons or entities, or representatives of those persons or entities or parties acting on their instructions. The goods offered must not be subject to international sanctions or originate from a sanctioned region.

The bidder must be entered in the commercial register of its country of establishment and provide its registration number or, where applicable, explain why it is not entered in the required register. For a joint bid, the bidders must provide a power of attorney identifying the lead bidder and confirming their joint and several liability. If the bid is not submitted jointly, a free-form confirmation to that effect must be included. The bid must comply with the tender documents; conditional bids are not permitted. The bidder must submit a price quotation using the prescribed form and state the total price excluding VAT. Quantities must be calculated on the basis of the construction design and specification tables provided, and the bidder is responsible for their accuracy. Price information must follow the specified structure. If the bid proposes an equivalent solution to one referenced in the tender documents, the bidder must explain the equivalence and provide supporting evidence. The bidder must identify any information in its bid that it considers a trade secret and justify that designation; the bid price and indicators corresponding to the award criteria may not be designated as trade secrets. The bidder must provide the names and personal identification numbers of persons authorised to represent, make decisions for, or control it who are not visible to the contracting authority in the commercial register, or confirm that there are no such persons. If subcontractors are used, the bidder must confirm that it will not engage a subcontractor that would have to be replaced under the law. The documents provided do not specify the award criteria or their weighting.