3.2. Step 1: Selection criteria  Annex 1  specifies which of the  involved entities  participating in a request to participate need  to provide the Declaration on Honour and, when requested by  the Contracting authority,  the  supporting evidence.  Please note that a request for evidence in no way implies that the tenderer has been  successful. The objective of the selection criteria is to assess whether the candidate has the legal,  regulatory, economic, financial, technical and professional capacity to perform the contract. The selection criteria for this call for tenders, including the minimum levels of capacity, the  basis for assessment and the evidence required, are specified in the following subsections.  Requests to participate submitted by candidates not meeting the minimum levels of capacity  will be rejected.  When submitting its request to participate each candidate shall declare on honour that it fulfils  the selection criteria for the call for candidatures. The model Declaration on Honour available  in  Annex 3  shall be used. The subsections below specify which selection criteria evidence must be provided with the  request to participate or may be requested later, at any time during the procurement  procedure $^{7}$. In any case, to the extent that there is no ground for a waiver, the evidence must  be provided, upon request and within a deadline given by the  Contracting authority.  The  evidence must be provided in accordance with the applicable basis for assessment of each  criterion: in case of a consolidated assessment – only by the  involved entities  who contribute  to the fulfilment of the criterion, and in case of individual assessment – by each  involved  entity  to whom the criterion applies individually.  $^{7}$ The obligation to provide the supporting evidence will be waived in the following situations:  - if such evidence can be accessed by the  Contracting Authority  on a national database free of charge, in  which case the economic operator shall provide  the Contracting authority  with the internet address of  the database and, if needed, the necessary identification data to retrieve the document;  - if there is a material impossibility to provide such evidence.  - if the same documents have already been provided in a previous award procedure of the European  Commission, have been issued no more than one year before the date of their request by the  Contracting authority  and are still valid at that date;  - if such evidence can be accessed by the  Contracting authority  on a national database free of charge, in  which case the economic operator shall provide the  Contracting authority  with the internet address of  the database and, if needed, the necessary identification data to retrieve the document.  Page 13 of 32  TEMPLATE: Restricted procedure - Tender specifications Part 1 Administrative Specifications  JRC R.9 - IMS-JRC-S3.1-TMP-0048 - v.1.0 17/02/2020 M(EN) 