The tender shall be made on the basis of the Procurement and Contract Procedures for Services (Allgemeine Vertragsbedingungen für die Ausführung von Leistungen, Teil B - VOL/B) and the Terms of Reference (Appendix A), which shall not be modified by the bidder.
General terms and conditions or the bidder’s own contractual terms, or amendments to the prevailing contractual terms, shall not be permitted. The inclusion of such terms may lead to the exclusion of the tender. Alternative tenders shall not be permitted.
The tender must be compiled in full in accordance with the following structure and must contain only the documents listed in the following table.
| Type of document |
Annex to these Tender Conditions |
| Cover letter |
B.1 |
| Basic information about the company |
B.2 |
| Declaration of the bidding consortium |
B.3 |
| References |
B.4 |
| Declaration pertaining to the non-existence of grounds for exclusion |
B.5 |
| Price sheet completed by the bidder |
Annex C |
| Technical Proposal and Social Sustainability according to Annex D – Evaluation Matrix |
Submitted by bidder |
| Additional documents required for the suitability (see Section 8 below) |
(bidder’s own documents) |
As proof of suitability, the bidder must complete the samples enclosed in Appendix B to this letter. Disqualification criteria or minimum requirements are identified as such. The terms “disqualification criteria” and “minimum requirements” mean that the bidder shall be disqualified if he fails to meet the requirements.
The tender must be complete and contain the price and all other required information and declarations.
Incompleteness of the tender (including the absence of individual required declarations) may lead to
the tender’s exclusion.