Roof repair works at the archive library of Saaremaa Museum Foundation

The bidder may be excluded if it or a person in its management, supervisory or control bodies, or authorised to represent or control it, has a final conviction within the last five years for participation in a criminal organisation, corruption, fraud, a terrorist offence, money laundering or terrorist financing, child labour or another form of human trafficking. The relevant exclusion period in a conviction also applies. Where legally available, the bidder may provide evidence of measures taken to restore its reliability. Exclusion may also apply for unpaid taxes or social security contributions in the bidder’s country of establishment or the contracting authority’s country. The stated threshold is EUR 0; however, under Estonian rules, a tax-debt certificate is not issued for debt below EUR 100, excluding interest not determined by an administrative act, or where payment has been deferred. The bidder must also confirm that entering into the contract would not breach an international or Estonian government sanction.

The bidder must be entered in the relevant professional register, with MTR registration for general construction and restoration of heritage properties, and in the applicable business register. The bidder’s annual turnover must be at least EUR 500,000. It must have business liability insurance of at least EUR 100,000. The bidder must have completed at least one similar project during the 60 months before the procurement began: roof construction on a heritage-protected building in accordance with a work plan approved by the National Heritage Board. The value of that work must exceed EUR 50,000. The bidder must provide details and evidence that the work was properly completed. The works must be overseen by a project manager holding a competence certificate for construction work on heritage-protected buildings, registered in the National Heritage Board’s cultural monuments register. The on-site working foreman must hold a level 7 construction engineer professional certificate; its number must be provided. The bidder must confirm that it will not use subcontractors or suppliers subject to the specified Russian sanctions for more than 10% of the contract value, and that it will not engage a subcontractor who would have to be replaced under the Public Procurement Act. Joint bidders must appoint an authorised representative and include their power of attorney with the bid. The bid must accept the tender-document conditions, must not be conditional, and must follow the specified price-submission structure. Any claimed equivalence must be explained and supported with evidence.