## 3.1 Verification of non-exclusion 

All tenderers must provide a declaration on honour (see section 4. Annexes), signed and dated by an authorised representative, stating that they are not in one of the situations of exclusion listed in that declaration on honour. 

In case of joint tender, each member of the group must provide a declaration on honour signed by an authorised representative. 

In case of subcontracting, all subcontractors whose capacity is necessary to fulfil the selection criteria must provide a declaration on honour signed by an authorised representative. 

ECDC reserves the right to verify whether the successful tenderer(s) is in one of the situations of exclusion by requiring the supporting documents listed in the declaration of honour. 

The successful tenderer(s) must provide the documents mentioned as supporting evidence in the declaration on honour before signature of the contract and within a deadline given by ECDC. This requirement applies to each member of the group in case of joint tender and to all subcontractors whose capacity is necessary to fulfil the selection criteria. 

The obligation to submit supporting evidence does not apply to international organisations. 

A tenderer (or a member of the group in case of joint tender, or a subcontractor) is not required to submit the documentary evidence if it has already been submitted for another procurement procedure and provided the documents were issued not more than one year before the date of their request by ECDC and are still valid at that date. In such cases, the tenderer must declare on its honour that the documentary evidence has already been provided in a previous procurement procedure, indicate the reference of the procedure and confirm that that there has been no change in its situation. 

## 3.2 Selection criteria 

Tenderers must prove their legal, regulatory, economic, financial, technical and professional capacity to carry out the work subject to this procurement procedure. 

The tenderer may rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links which it has with them. It must in that case prove to ECDC that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary for performance of the contract, for example by producing an undertaking on the part of those entities to place those resources at its disposal. 

The tender must include the proportion of the contract that the tenderer intends to subcontract. 

## 3.2.1 Declaration and evidence 

The tenderers (and each member of the group in case of joint tender) and subcontractors whose capacity is necessary to fulfil the selection criteria must provide the declaration on honour (see section 4. Annexes), signed and dated by an authorised representative, stating that they fulfil the selection criteria applicable to them individually. For the criteria applicable to the tenderer as a whole the tenderer (sole tenderer or leader in case of joint tender) must provide the declaration on honour stating that the tenderer, including all members of the group in case of joint tender and including subcontractors if applicable, fulfils the selection criteria for which a consolidated assessment will be carried out. 

