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Institutional and Individual DoIs do not need to be provided with your offer. The requirement to submit Institutional and Individual DoIs will be specified in the award letter and will have to be provided and assessed by the EFSA Authorising Officer before and as a condition of contract signature. Please refer to EFSA’s policy on independence and the Decision of the Executive Director on Competing Interest Management for detailed information. 

With the exception of declarations of interest, evidence must be included in the offer for partners in a joint offer and/or subcontractors only if the capacity of those entities is necessary to satisfy the minimum economic, financial, technical and professional capacity requirements. 

If any of the declarations or information provided proves to be false, EFSA may impose administrative sanctions (exclusion or financial penalties) on the entity providing the false declarations/information. 

For the purposes of the evaluation related to exclusion and selection criteria EFSA may also refer to publicly available information, in particular evidence that it can access on a national database free of charge. 

## 2.5 COMPLIANCE WITH TENDER SPECIFICATION AND MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 

Your offer will be assessed for compliance with the tender specifications before its assessment against the award criteria. 

Tenders do not comply with the tender specifications and will be rejected if they: 

 do not comply with minimum requirements laid down in the tender specifications; 

propose a solution different from the one imposed; 

 propose a price above the fixed maximum set in the specifications; 

are submitted as variants, when the specifications do not authorise them; 

 do not comply with applicable obligations under environmental, social and labour law established by Union law, national law and collective agreements or by the international environmental, social and labour law provisions listed in Annex X to Directive 2014/24/EU 9 and compliance with data protection obligations resulting from Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 10 . 

The grounds for rejection is not linked to the award criteria so there is no evaluation. The tenderer will be informed of the grounds for rejection without being given feedback on the content of the tender other than on the non-compliant elements. 

