■ Exclusion criteria: The tenderers do not need to upload any documentary evidence for exclusion criteria at the stage of submitting the tender. EMSA will explicitly request the successful tenderers to submit this documentation at a later stage, prior to the signature of the contract. 

■ Selection criteria : The tenderers (and each member of the group in case of joint tender) and the other entities on whose capacity tenderers rely to fulfil the selection criteria (if applicable) are requested to provide the documentary evidence for selection criteria at the stage of submitting the tender. 

■ Technical tender: It must address all the requirements laid down in the Tender Specifications. 

■ Financial tender: The complete financial tender, including the breakdown of the price/price of the scenario as provided in the Tender Specifications. 

For detailed instructions on how to submit your tender, download the Quick Reference Guide for Economic Operators$^{2}$ (pdf document), where you will find on: 

■ Technical requirements to use e-Submission, 

■ Step-by-step guide to help you submit your tender, 

■ Test call for tenders, 

■ Important advices and information and 

■ How to get technical support. 

Please make sure all required documents and evidence are submitted with your tender. 

## 3. Documents to be signed and dated while creating your Tender 

The following documents must be signed and dated during the creation of your tender in e-Submission: 

■ DoH(s):  The tenderer and all members of a joint tender, including subcontractors (if applicable) must sign and date this document. 

■ Tender Report: This report is a document generated by e-Submission while you are completing your tender and it contains the list of documents included in the tender. The tenderer’s or group leader’s authorised representative(s) must sign the report. 

The above documents must be signed using any of the following 2 methods: 

■ Electronically signed, in this case you must sign with an advanced electronic signature based on qualified certificates. 

■ Hand signature , in this case, you must print the documents and the authorised representative must hand sign the documents and then scanned them so you can upload these into the e-Submission system. 

A copy of the signed Tender Report shall be also sent to the dedicated email address of the procurement procedure as indicated in the Invitation to tender. 

