Annex 1  specifies which of the involved entities  participating in a request to participate need to provide the Declaration on Honour and, when requested by the Contracting authority, the supporting evidence. 

Please note that a request for evidence in no way implies that the tenderer has been successful. 

## 3.2. Step 1: Selection criteria 

The objective of the selection criteria is to assess whether the candidate has the legal, regulatory, economic, financial, technical and professional capacity to perform the contract. 

The selection criteria for this call for tenders, including the minimum levels of capacity, the basis for assessment and the evidence required, are specified in the following subsections. 

Requests to participate submitted by candidates not meeting the minimum levels of capacity will be rejected. 

When submitting its request to participate each candidate shall declare on honour that it fulfils the selection criteria for the call for candidatures. The model Declaration on Honour available in Annex 3  shall be used. 

The subsections below specify which selection criteria evidence must be provided with the request to participate or may be requested later, at any time during the procurement procedure $^{7}$. In any case, to the extent that there is no ground for a waiver, the evidence must be provided, upon request and within a deadline given by the Contracting authority. The evidence must be provided in accordance with the applicable basis for assessment of each criterion: in case of a consolidated assessment – only by the involved entities  who contribute to the fulfilment of the criterion, and in case of individual assessment – by each involved entity  to whom the criterion applies individually. 

- if such evidence can be accessed by the Contracting Authority  on a national database free of charge, in which case the economic operator shall provide the Contracting authority  with the internet address of the database and, if needed, the necessary identification data to retrieve the document; 

- if there is a material impossibility to provide such evidence. 

$^{7}$ The obligation to provide the supporting evidence will be waived in the following situations: 

- if the same documents have already been provided in a previous award procedure of the European Commission, have been issued no more than one year before the date of their request by the Contracting authority  and are still valid at that date; 

- if such evidence can be accessed by the Contracting authority  on a national database free of charge, in which case the economic operator shall provide the Contracting authority  with the internet address of the database and, if needed, the necessary identification data to retrieve the document. 

TEMPLATE: Restricted procedure - Tender specifications Part 1 Administrative Specifications JRC R.9 - IMS-JRC-S3.1-TMP-0048 - v.1.0 17/02/2020 M(EN) 

