Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service: public procurement participants cannot be required to fill out qualification tables to assess experience
According to the procedure for evaluating applications, participants had to not only confirm the experience with documents, but also fill out a table according to the form.
It indicated information about the highest value of the executed contract, in particular: the name of the participant, the dates of the conclusion of the contract, the start and end of work, the price and numbers of acceptance certificates. If the documents did not meet the evaluation procedure, instructions for filling out the application, or they were not submitted in full, no points were awarded.
Controllers found a violation:
- the content of the table repeated information from contracts and other documents that the participant already attached to the application. However, the customer did not evaluate them if the table was not filled out;
- the disputed document does not confirm qualification, and its absence in the application does not prove that the participant does not have the necessary experience.
Note that a similar position was expressed by the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Leningrad Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service. The controllers stressed that the regulation on evaluation and Federal Law N 44 do not allow requiring participants to fill out certificates of qualification for scoring.