The candidate must in Part IV of the ESPD provide the following information:
ESPD, Part IV, para C ("Works contracts: performance of works of the specified type") - the candidate is requested to describe the references which document experience in contracting, architectural work, landscaping and engineering concerning relevant construction projects, [see in this respect sections II.1.4 and II.2.4], preferably design and build projects. To ensure sufficient competition, the Contracting Entity has decided to allow the references to date 10 years back calculated from the time of expiry of the application deadline (i.e. the works/services must be carried out within a period of 10 years preceding the expiry of the application deadline). References from contracts/projects in progress are not allowed (i.e. the projects must have been handed over or otherwise finalised).
The candidate may choose to attach the list of references as a separate document. If so, the applicant/entity should specifically refer to such separately enclosed list in Part IV, para C of the ESPD.
The Contracting Entity requests a total maximum of 10 references for the candidate as a whole (irrespective of whether the candidate relies on other entities, is a group/consortium or applies alone). If the candidate submits more than 10 references, the Contracting Entity will only take the 10 newest references into account (i.e. the 10 projects that have been most recently concluded).
If it is not possible to decide which references are the 10 most recent, the references will be selected by drawing lots.
The references should include the following information:
— Name of project,
— The date of delivery of the construction project/finalisation of the services,
— Project price/fee,
— Name of client/customer and contract details,
— Description of the construction/project (type, complexity and size in gross m2),
— Description of the services delivered in connection with the project,
— Type of contract (trade contract, multi-trade contract, main contract, design and build contract),
— Short summary of the reasons for the relevance of the reference as compared to the project put up for tender.
If the candidate relies on the technical capacity of another entity, such other entity must be used as subsupplier/subcontractor for the performance of the task - the details of this requirement are set out in the contract.
The information in the ESPD is used as preliminary proof that the candidate complies with the minimum requirements set out below.
Before award of the contract, the tenderer to whom the Contracting Entity intends to award the contract must submit documentation that the information stated in the ESPD is accurate.
Upon the Contracting Entity's request, the candidate must submit the following documentation of technical and professional capacity: The candidate will not be requested to submit further documentation of technical and professional capacity, as the content of the ESPD/the list of references is considered sufficient documentation. However, the Contracting Entity reserves the right to contact the candidate or the customer stated in the reference for confirmation of the information stated in the reference, including the dates of the reference indicated.
The candidate must at least enclose 1 reference which concerns a “similar project” and at least 1 reference concerning a project of a “significant financial size”. If a reference concerns both a “similar project” and is of a “significant financial size”, that reference alone is sufficient to fulfil the minimum requirement. However, it is not a requirement that it is one and the same reference.
“Similar projects” means design and build contracts where the candidate has undertaken the performance (i.e. the construction works) of one of the following types of construction: hospital construction, laboratory construction, construction of research facilities, construction of pharmaceutical facilities, construction of medical centres, construction of nursing homes, construction of food production facilities, utilities (e.g. heat and power plants), data centres.
A “significant financial size” means design and build projects where the candidate has undertaken the performance (i.e. the construction works) at a contract price of 500 000 000 DKK (500 million DKK) or more.
In addition, the candidate must enclose at least
— one reference concerning architectural design in a similar project type (but not necessarily a design and build contract) and
— one reference concerning engineering design in a similar project type (but not necessarily a design and build contract).
The same reference may in principle fulfil all the above requirements, provided that the specific entity on the same design/build contract has carried out the construction, the architectural design and the engineering design without the use of external entities, e.g. sub-consultants, so that the entity has carried out the tasks in-house, or, in the alternative, all the entities having delivered the above services on the same design/build contract apply jointly.
In order to fulfil the minimum requirements, the specific references must not be more than 10 years old calculated from the time of expiry of the application deadline (i.e. the works/services must be carried out within a period of 10 years preceding the expiry of the application deadline).