Compliance requirements
Exclusion grounds must not apply to the bidder or a member of its management, administrative or supervisory body in relation to participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences or offences related to terrorist activities, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour or human trafficking. Relevant grounds include convictions within the last five years or an exclusion period set by a conviction that is still in force.
Further grounds include failure to meet tax or social security contribution obligations, employing a foreign national staying in the country without a lawful basis, and entering into a contract with a person where doing so would breach an international or Estonian Government sanction. Where permitted by law, the bidder may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability. For tax debt certificates, the tax authority does not issue a certificate where the tax debt is below EUR 100 or payment has been deferred.