EU for Trade and Internal Market

Average Annual Turnover: The candidate's or tenderer's average annual turnover of the last 3 financial years for which the accounts have been closed must be not less than 2,700,000.00 EUR.

Assets/Liabilities Ratio: Current ratio (current assets/current liabilities) in the last year for which accounts have been closed must be at least 1. In case of a consortium this criterion must be fulfilled by each member of the consortium.

Minimum Personnel: The candidate or tenderer has, during the current year and the previous two years, on average, at least: 10 (ten) personnel directly employed or otherwise legally contracted on a permanent or non-permanent basis in areas of specialist knowledge related to this contract.

No Professional Conflicting Interests: The candidate or tenderer is not subject to professional conflicting interests which may negatively affect contract performance. The presence of professional conflicting interests shall be examined on the basis of the statements made through the Declarations on Honour and, where applicable, the statements and other documents submitted.

Reference Contracts: The candidate or tenderer has completed services under at least 3 contracts implemented at any moment during the last four years before submission deadline. For each contract, the value of the services completed must not be less than 2,000,000.00 EUR. The completed services are in the domain of: (i) alignment/compliance with the EU acquis and capacity building in the area of free movement of goods; (ii) alignment/compliance with the EU acquis and capacity building in the area of consumer protection; (iii) alignment/compliance with the EU acquis and capacity building in the area of trade. A submitted reference contract that covers more than one domain will be considered as 1 (one) reference contract. One reference contract does not have to cover all domains, but all domains need to be covered by the 3 (three) requested reference contracts. The services carried out under each reference contract must have been implemented in any of the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye, Ukraine (alignment) OR in any EU Member State (compliance).

Highest Number of Qualifying Contracts: The highest number of contracts under which services have been completed that meet the technical capacity criterion. Applied if more than 8 eligible candidates meet the above selection criteria, in order to rank and identify the 8 best requests to participate.