EUOSHA/2021/OP/F/SE/0142  As evidence of non-exclusion, each tenderer needs to submit with its tender a declaration on honour in  the model available in  Annex VI. 3  The declaration must be signed by an authorised representative of  the entity providing the declaration.  The initial verification of non-exclusion of tenderers will be done on the basis of the submitted  declarations and consultation of the European Union's Early Detection and Exclusion System. The  documents mentioned as supporting evidence in the declaration on honour need to be provided  whenever requested and where this is necessary to ensure the proper conduct of the procedure within  a deadline given by the  contracting authority . 4 Annex III specifies which of the  involved entities  participating in a tender need to provide the declaration  on honour and, when requested by the  contracting authority , the supporting evidence.  Before the award decision, the  contracting authority  may request documentary evidence on compliance  with the exclusion criteria set out in the present tender specifications. All tenderers are invited to prepare  in advance the documents related to the evidence, as they may be requested to provide such evidence  within a short deadline. Failure to provide valid documentary evidence within the deadline set by the  contracting authority  shall lead to the rejection of the tender for the award of the contract, unless the  tenderer can justify the failure on the grounds of material impossibility.    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 tenderer 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.  4.2  Selection criteria  3 Unless the same declaration has already been submitted for the purposes of another award procedure of the European  Commission, the situation has not changed, and the time elapsed since the issuing date of the declaration does not exceed 1  year.  4  The obligation to provide supporting evidence will be waived in the following situations:  - if the same documents have already been provided in a previous award procedure, have been issued no more than 1 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   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.  47 