## 3.3. Compliance with the minimum requirements of the Tender specifications 

By submitting a tender a tenderer commits to perform the contract in full compliance with the terms and conditions of the procurement documents for this call for tender. Particular attention is drawn to the minimum requirements specified in Section 1.4 of these specifications and to the fact that tenders must comply with applicable data protection, environmental, social and labour law obligations established by Union law, national legislation, collective agreements or the international environmental, social and labour conventions listed in Annex X to Directive 2014/24/EU. 

The minimum requirements shall be observed throughout the entire duration of the contract. Compliance with these requirements is mandatory and cannot be subject to any assumptions, limitations, conditions, or reservations on the part of a tenderer. 

 Tenders that are not compliant with the applicable minimum requirements shall be rejected. 

## 3.4. Award criteria 

The contract will be awarded to the most economically advantageous tender, according to the 'best price-quality ratio' award method. The quality of the tender will be evaluated based on the following criteria. The maximum total quality score is 100 points. 

A maximum of 60 points will be attributed to criterion 1, a maximum of 20 points will be attributed to criterion 2, and a maximum of 20 points will be attributed to criterion 3. In addition, a minimum threshold will be set up under this system of points: 

 - Technical sufficiency levels: Selected companies will have to score a minimum of 40, 10 and 10 points under criteria 1, 2 and 3 respectively, with a minimum total of 65 points . 

Assessment of the tenders will focus on the quality of the proposed services therefore tenderers should elaborate on all points addressed by these specifications in order to score as many points as possible. The mere repetition of mandatory requirements set out in these specifications, without going into details or without giving any added value, will only result in a very low score. In addition, if certain essential points of these specifications are not expressly covered by the tender, the Commission may decide to give a zero mark for the relevant qualitative award criteria. 

1 Quality of the proposed methodology (60 points – minimum threshold 40 points) 

The degree to which the methodology shows the capacity to analyse, review and evaluate documents and figures, in accordance with the needs of the contracting authority will be assessed under this criterion. Furthermore the tender must demonstrate the capacity to resolve the questions underlying in the tender in a realistic and well- structured way, as well as demonstrate that the methods proposed are suited to the needs set out by the Commission in the Technical Specifications (see section 1.4.2). 

2 Organisation of the work and allocation of resources (20 points – minimum threshold 10) 

This criterion will assess how the roles and responsibilities of the proposed team and of the economic operators (in case of joint tenders, including subcontractors if 

