Compliance requirements
The bidder may be excluded for relevant final convictions involving participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorism-related offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour or human trafficking, including convictions of persons who manage, represent or control the bidder. Other grounds include breaches of tax or social security payment obligations; bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, suspended business activity or comparable situations; serious professional misconduct; agreements intended to distort competition; an unmanageable conflict of interest or an advantage arising from involvement in preparing the procurement; and serious or repeated breaches of earlier contracts resulting in early termination, damages or comparable sanctions. Exclusion may also follow from false or misleading information, failure to provide required information or documents, or attempts to obtain confidential information or improperly influence the procurement. Further grounds concern breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations, enabling unlawful employment of a foreign national, being subject to international sanctions, and convictions for tax offences. The notice also describes the possibility of demonstrating restored reliability where applicable.