A. INSTRUCTIONS TO TENDERERS  The following selection criteria will be applied to tenderers. In the case of tenders submitted by a  consortium, these selection criteria will be applied to the consortium as a whole:  1)  Economic and financial capacity of tenderer (based on item 3 of the tender  submission form). In case the tenderer ( leader or any of the members of the consortium ) is a  public body, equivalent information should be provided. Legal persons:  Legal persons:  Note to candidates : In the application form, please make sure to include the actual year for  which the data is provided.  Legal persons:  The candidate (individual company or consortium altogether) has successfully completed, at any  time between 1 $^{st}$ January 2016 up to the deadline of submission of applications, either a) alone,  b) as leader of a consortium, or c) as a member of a consortium with a minimum participation of  50% of the project(s) brought as reference:  Projects presented as references must consist of a single contract (and addenda). Its  commencement date, completion, the amount of the project reference and the candidate’s  contribution must be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary evidence  (such as certificates from the beneficiary). The project references submitted in the relation to the above criteria for the Technical capacity of  the tenderer, must have been completed within the reference period (although started earlier).  The tenderer may refer to a part of a project/service contract which is not yet completed, but  only in so far as that part is successfully completed and its date of completion, its value, and  tenderer’s % contribution may be clearly identified and proven through adequate documentary  evidence (such as certificates from the beneficiary or proof of payment of invoices) which need  to be provided together with the Tender submission form.  Where the projects referenced have been implemented by consortia comprising two or more of  the members now associated as a consortium for this tender procedure, their respective  percentages shall be added together, in order for the application to be assessed on the basis of  Page 3 of 12 AA-000799-002_TAINSTRUCT  A single reference may be used to fulfil only one more criteria.  The number of references to be provided for the entire application must not exceed 8  references.  Note to tenderers: c)  At least 2 references presented for criteria a), or b), must have been implemented in the  Eastern Partnership Countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova,  Ukraine), or in IPA countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia,  Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey).  b) At least 1 project of a minimum value of EUR 500.000 equivalent, with activities related  to the supervision of works for road or railways infrastructure projects implemented  under FIDIC conditions of contract or similar International Financing institutions  standards  a) At least 2 projects of a minimum value of EUR 500.000 equivalent, with activities related  to the provision of advisory services, project management or implementation support to  Promoters for railway or road construction projects (excluding supervision of works).  3)  Technical capacity of tenderer  (based on item 6 of the tender form).  a) The number of permanent staff of the candidate (individual company or consortium  overall) currently working in fields related to this contract, must be  at least 3 f or each of  the last three years (2018, 2019, 2020). 2)  Professional capacity of tenderer  (based on items 4 and 5 of the tender form)  a) The annual turnover of the candidate must be of at least  EUR 430.000  for each of the  last three years for which accounts have been closed. Note to candidates: In the  application form, please make sure to include the actual year for which the data is  provided. 