Contracting Body Requirements

tbr070-002

The ESPD request shall be identified and dated. The time of issue should be stated and it should be indicated whether the document is a copy. The UBL version and the ESPD version, the ESPD specification and the transaction should be identified as well.

tbr070-001

The contracting body must be identified, hence information about the party is required, such as party name, identification, endpoint id-, buyer profile  and country- .

tbr070-006

The qualification document should contain contact information of the contracting body: Postal address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, contact person(s).

tbr070-005

The contracting authority must be able to provide the CPV codes in the ESPD request.

tbr070-007

The ESPD request must contain the object of the contract, its name, a despription, the type of procedure, the type of procurement project and the applied CPV codes as well as a reference to the call for tenders, i.e. the procurement project ID or notice ID (PIN, CN, and CAN), which defines the requirements (i.e. criteria) for which this document is created and submitted by the economic operator. It must be possible to maintain this information in order to keep track of the connection between ESPD request and call for tenders/notices.

tbr070-008

The ESPD request may contain information about the procurement lots defined in a call for tender and indicate for each tendering criterion what lots are related to it. The contracting body shall also set the minimum yearly turnover that economic operators are required to have if they tender for more than one lot. In this case, the contracting body shall provide a reference to the group of lots of the call for tender, to which the minimum turnover applies (art. 58 of 2014/24/EU).

tbr070-003

The contracting authority must be able to define the particular requirements that apply to selection criteria regarding Suitability.

tbr070-009

The ESPD request must contain information about the criteria that set the exclusion grounds as stated in directive 2014/24/EU Art. 57 and referred to in directive 2014/25/EU Art. 80 and/or according to national legislation.

tbr070-010

The ESPD request must contain information about qualitative selection criteria as stated in directive 2014/24/EU Art. 58 and 2014/25/EU Art. 80 and/or according to national legislation.

tbr070-004

The contracting body must be able to indicate, which criteria for exclusion grounds and qualitative selection specific types of economic operators (e.g. subcontractors or partners in consortia) need to declare.

tbr070-013

The ESPD request shall provide criteria of exclusion grounds and of qualitative selection in a structured way, i.e. grouping the criteria along the criteria groups as put forward in the directive 2014/24/EU. Additional information for each criterion may be provided such as: Legal reference (EU level, contracting body national level, economic operator national level), type of criterion (e.g. technical capability, financial standing, etc.) or specific requirements for natural persons as settled in Art. 67-69 of directive 2014/24/EU. This information is provided by the contracting body, who includes the information from the call for tenders or it is automatically/directly imported from the call for tenders.

tbr070-015

The ESPD must provide information about thresholds regarding unpaid taxes or social security obligations.

tbr070-016

The contracting authority must be able to provide information about weighted criteria.

tbr070-017

Information about weighted criteria provided by the contracting authority must be displayed to the economic operator.

tbr070-018

Several selection criteria must be displayed only for a particular type of contract.

tbr070-019

The contracting authority must be able to provide information about the applicable periods for qualification criteria

tbr070-011

The ESPD request may contain information of identification regarding an ESPD service provider: Name, Party Identification, Endpoint ID, Website, Country.

tbr070-012

The ESPD service provider may be able to provide complementary information such as liability statements.

tbr070-014

The ESPD should allow to include a Version ID and a Previous Version ID to the ESPD. Both help to identify the status of subsystems that have supported the creation of the ESPD. The Previous version ID is needed to trace changes that have occurred.