Software modernization services for the Integrated Electronic Identification System

Exclusion grounds include final convictions within the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, terrorist offences, money laundering or terrorist financing, and the use of child labour or other forms of human trafficking. Grounds also include unpaid taxes or social security contributions; breaches of environmental, social or labour obligations; bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation, creditor arrangements, court or liquidator administration of assets, or suspended business activity; serious professional misconduct; agreements intended to distort competition; an unmanageable conflict of interest; involvement in preparing the procurement that creates an advantage which cannot otherwise be remedied; significant or repeated failure to perform a previous public contract resulting in early termination, damages, price reduction or a comparable sanction; false or misleading information, failure to provide required information or documents, or improper attempts to influence the procurement or obtain confidential information. National grounds include enabling an unlawfully present foreign national to work, being subject to international sanctions, and convictions for tax offences. The stated tax information notes that, under Estonian rules, a tax-debt certificate is not issued for a debt below EUR 100 or where payment has been deferred. Where an exclusion ground applies, the tenderer may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability when this is permitted for the procurement.

The tenderer’s total turnover over the last three financial years before the procurement procedure began must be at least EUR 100,000 in total. The tenderer must provide references for at least 2 similar contracts duly completed within the 36 months before the procurement began. Each contract must have lasted at least 6 months and be worth at least EUR 30,000. Similar contracts concern the development, modernisation, adaptation, updating, technical support or maintenance of public authorities’ electronic identification systems or electronic identification subsystems of information and communication systems. The references must include information on value, dates and the other contracting party. The tender must include a completed application form, an accessibility conformance statement or an equivalent description of accessibility measures, and a certificate issued in English confirming that the tenderer is not subject to the specified individual special economic or other restrictive sanctions. Joint tenderers must appoint an authorised representative and include the authorisation. Tenderers must identify and justify any trade secrets; the tender price and specified evaluation-related figures may not be designated as trade secrets. The tender must comply with the tender documents and be unconditional. Where an equivalent solution is offered, its equivalence and supporting evidence must be provided. The price must follow the prescribed structure. Economic operators based in Russia or Belarus, including entities whose resources the tenderer relies on, may not participate. Participation is open to the international or regional organisations and natural or legal persons meeting the requirement in clause 5.3 of the tender requirements; the details of that requirement must be checked in the tender documents. No award-scoring details are provided in the available text.