This article shows you as a public buyer how to set requirements about the suppliers themselves, and how the ESPD relates to them.
Set the qualification requirements
On the Qualification requirements step you enter what the supplier must document to be qualified: suitability, financial standing, and technical or professional ability.
Add them with New requirement, or pull in ready-made ones with From the library. If you have a fixed set, take the whole thing with Apply template.
ℹ️ Note: Qualification requirements are about the supplier, not the bid. If something about the delivery itself is to be assessed, it belongs under award criteria or minimum requirements.
Exclusion grounds
Under Exclusion grounds all voluntary grounds are on from the start, in line with the DFØ recommendation. You can switch individual ones off, but a ground you switch off cannot be used to exclude a supplier later. The mandatory ones cannot be switched off. Suppliers answer these in their self-declaration.
ESPD
The exclusion grounds you have switched on become separate entries in the form (Part III), where the supplier confirms that none of them apply. The qualification requirements are listed in Part IV, where they appear as Selection criteria, and the supplier confirms as a whole that all of them are met. Where a requirement asks for documentation, the supplier uploads it together with the bid. If you collect the self-declaration together with the bid, you find the form under ESPD form on the summary step, with the Preview ESPD button.
💡 Tip: Look through the preview before you announce. A requirement that came out unclear is easiest to fix while the procurement is still a draft.
Next
See Award criteria for the next step.