The following selection criteria will be applied to tenderers. In the case of tenders submitted by a consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole: 

1) Economic and financial capacity of tenderer (based on item 3 of the tender submission form). In case the tenderer ( leader or any of the members of the consortium ) is a public body, equivalent information should be provided. 

Legal persons: 

a) The annual turnover of the candidate must be of at least EUR 430.000  for each of the last three years for which accounts have been closed. Note to candidates: In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided. 

2) Professional capacity of tenderer  (based on items 4 and 5 of the tender form) 

Legal persons: 

a) The number of permanent staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium overall) currently working in fields related to this contract, must be at least 3 f or each of the last three years (2018, 2019, 2020). 

Note to candidates : In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is provided. 

3) Technical capacity of tenderer  (based on item 6 of the tender form). 

Legal persons: 

The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has successfully completed, at any time between 1 $^{st}$ January 2016 up to the deadline of submission of applications, either a) alone, b) as leader of a consortium, or c) as a member of a consortium with a minimum participation of 50% of the project(s) brought as reference: 

a) At least 2 projects of a minimum value of EUR 500.000 equivalent, with activities related to the provision of advisory services, project management or implementation support to Promoters for railway or road construction projects (excluding supervision of works). 

b) At least 1 project of a minimum value of EUR 500.000 equivalent, with activities related to the supervision of works for road or railways infrastructure projects implemented under FIDIC conditions of contract or similar International Financing institutions standards 

c) At least 2 references presented for criteria a), or b), must have been implemented in the Eastern Partnership Countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine), or in IPA countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey). 

## Note to tenderers: 

## The number of references to be provided for the entire application must not exceed 8 references. 

## A single reference may be used to fulfil only one more criteria. 

Projects presented as references must consist of a single contract (and addenda). Its commencement date, completion, the amount of the project reference and the candidate’s contribution must be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary evidence (such as certificates from the beneficiary). 

The project references submitted in the relation to the above criteria for the Technical capacity of the tenderer, must have been completed within the reference period (although started earlier). The tenderer may refer to a part of a project/service contract which is not yet completed, but only in so far as that part is successfully completed and its date of completion, its value, and tenderer’s % contribution may be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary evidence (such as certificates from the beneficiary or proof of payment of invoices) which need to be provided together with the Tender submission form. 

Where the projects referenced have been implemented by consortia comprising two or more of the members now associated as a consortium for this tender procedure, their respective percentages shall be added together, in order for the application to be assessed on the basis of 

