Paragraph 4 Technical and professional ability

With regard to technical and professional ability, a relevant authority may impose requirements ensuring that a provider possesses the necessary human and technical resources and experience to perform the contract, or contracts based on the framework agreement to an appropriate quality standard.

A relevant authority may require, in particular, that a provider has a sufficient level of experience demonstrated by suitable references from contracts performed in the past.

A relevant authority may assume that a provider does not possess the required professional abilities where the relevant authority has established that the provider has conflicting interests which may negatively affect the performance of the contract or contracts based on the framework agreement.