1. GENERAL SELECTION /QUALIFICATION CRITERIA
The Bidder shall declare that:
a) It is registered at the Commercial Register as per the legislation of the country where it operates or as per the specific legislating in case of a non-profit organization, has its activity the object of the procurement and has an active status:
b) is not under a process of bankruptcy (active status)
c) is not convicted of any criminal offences, in accordance with Article 76/1 of the PPL
ç) the person (s) acting as a member of the administrative body, director or supervisor, shareholder or partner, or who has representative, decision-making or controlling powers within the Economic Operator, is not convicted or has not been convicted by a final court decision for any criminal offenses, defined in article 76/1 of the PPL.
d) is not convicted by virtue of final court decision regarding the professional activity.
dh) has no outstanding payments of taxes and social security contributions, or it is in one of the conditions foreseen in Article 76/2 of the PPL.
e) has paid the electricity, and meets the requirements arising from the legislation in force. This information is required for Economic Operators, which operate in the territory of the Republic of Albania.
f) is not in conditions of conflict of interest, according to the legislation in force;
g) exercises the activity in accordance with respective environment, social and labour legislation;
gj) has submitted an independent bid, according to the requirements of the legislation in force;
h) carries out the activity in accordance with the requirements of the legislation in force.
i) does not have in the quality of member of the administration, management, or supervisory body, shareholder or partner or with representative, decision-making, or controlling powers, in it persons who are /have been in this quality in an economic operator which has been excluded from the right to benefit public funds, by decision of the Public Procurement Agency, during the time this decision is in force.
If the language used in the procedure is Albanian, then the foreign language documents must be accompanied by a notarized translation into Albanian.
These criteria should be fulfilled with the submission of the Summary Self-Declaration Form of the economic operator on the day of the opening of the Bid, according to Appendix 8.
In case of joining venture of economic operators (JV), each member of the group must submit the above -mentioned self - declaration.
In case the bidding economic operator will rely on the capacities of other entities, the above-mentioned Self-Declaration must also be submitted by the supporting entity.
The General Admission Criteria should not be altered by the Contracting Authorities/Entities.
In any case, the Contracting Authority/Entity has the right to carry out the necessary verifications on the authenticity of the information declared by the Economic Operator, as per above.
If the bid is submitted by a joining of Economic Operators, the following shall be submitted:
Cooperation Agreement between the Economic Operators, which defines the representative, the percentage of participation in the joining, and elements undertaken to be realized by each of the members is defined
If an economic operator wishes to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall prove to the contracting authority / entity that it will have available the necessary resources, by submitting a written commitment of these entities for that purpose.