Purchase of personal protective equipment and operating-room linen

A bidder or its representative may be excluded following final convictions within the previous five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activities, money laundering or terrorist financing, illegal child labour or human trafficking. Failure to pay taxes or social security contributions may also be grounds for exclusion. For Estonian tax debts, a certificate is not issued where the debt is below EUR 100 or payment has been deferred. Other possible grounds include bankruptcy, liquidation, insolvency, assets being administered by a liquidator or court, suspension of business, an arrangement with creditors or a comparable situation; statutory exceptions may apply to purchases of goods. Further grounds include serious professional misconduct, agreements distorting competition, an unavoidable conflict of interest, involvement in preparing the procurement in a way that creates an advantage, significant or repeated breach of a previous public contract, and providing false information, withholding required information or documents, or improperly obtaining confidential information. Grounds may also include breaches of environmental, social or labour-law obligations; enabling a foreign national to work without lawful grounds or in breach of the conditions for working in Estonia; entering into a contract with a person subject to international or national sanctions; and convictions of the bidder or its representative for tax offences. Where an exclusion ground applies, the bidder may provide information and evidence of remedial measures taken to restore its reliability where this is permitted.

The European Single Procurement Document does not set out separate turnover, previous-experience or staffing qualification requirements for bidders. Bidders must submit the procurement participation declaration and confirm that their bids comply with the tender documents; conditional bids are not permitted. The bid must identify the manufacturer and name of each offered product and complete the pricing schedule in the required format. Products must be authorised for use in EU countries and bear the CE marking. Bidders must provide a CE declaration of conformity or copy and, where applicable, a copy of the authorisation under Regulation (EU) 2017/745. Product conformity certificates must also be submitted. By the bid deadline, bidders must deliver to the hospital pharmacy samples of the offered products in the quantities specified in the pricing schedule. Samples must match the products offered and be numbered by lot. Samples are not required for products sold to Järvamaa Hospital within the previous six months; in that case, the bid must state that the products were sold to the hospital. Bidders must confirm that their bids comply with the tender documents and explain and provide evidence of equivalence where an equivalent product is offered. The bid must identify any information claimed as a trade secret and justify that designation; bid prices and figures relevant to the award criteria may not be classified as trade secrets. The machine-readable notice does not specify the detailed award criteria; these must be checked in the tender documents.