3. EVALUATION AND AWARD  3.1. Exclusion criteria  14 The evaluation of the tenders that comply with the submission conditions will consist of  the following elements:  The  Contracting authority  will evaluate the abovementioned elements in the order that it  considers to be the most appropriate. If the evaluation of one or more elements  demonstrates that there are grounds for rejection, the tender will be rejected and will not  be subjected to further full evaluation. The unsuccessful tenderers will be informed of the  ground for rejection without being given feedback on the non-assessed content of their  tenders. Only tenderer(s) for whom the verification of all elements did not reveal grounds  for rejection can be awarded the contract.  The evaluation will be based on the information and evidence contained in the tenders and,  if applicable, on additional information and evidence provided at the request of the  Contracting authority  during the procedure. If any of the declarations or information  provided proves to be false, the  Contracting authority  may impose administrative sanctions  (exclusion or financial penalties) on the entity providing the false declarations/information.  For the purposes of the evaluation related to exclusion and selection criteria  the  Contracting authority  may also refer to publicly available information, in particular evidence  that it can access on a national database free of charge.  The objective of the exclusion criteria is to assess whether the tenderer is in any of the  exclusion situations listed in Article 136(1) of the Financial Regulation.  As evidence of non-exclusion each tenderer needs to submit with its tender a Declaration  on Honour 5  in the model available in  Annex 2 . 6  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 7 . 5  The European Single Procurement Document (ESPD) may not be used yet in ECHA's calls for tenders.  6  Unless the same declaration has already been submitted for the purposes of another award procedure of the  ECHA, the situation has not changed, and the time elapsed since the issuing date of the declaration does not  exceed one year.  7  The obligation to provide the supporting evidence will be waived in the following situations:  • Check if the tenderer has access to procurement (see  Section 2.2 );  • Verification of administrative compliance (if the tender is drawn up in one of the  official EU languages and signed by duly authorised representative(-s) of the  tenderer);  • Verification of non-exclusion of tenderers on the basis of the exclusion criteria;  • Selection of tenderers on the basis of selection criteria;  Verification of compliance with the minimum requirements defined in the Tender  specifications;  • Evaluation of tenders on the basis of the award criteria. 