Institutional and Individual DoIs do not need to be provided with your offer. The  requirement to submit Institutional and Individual DoIs will be specified in the award  letter and will have to be provided and assessed by the EFSA Authorising Officer  before and as a condition of contract signature. Please refer to  EFSA’s policy on  independence and the Decision of the Executive Director on Competing Interest  Management for detailed information. With the exception of declarations of interest, evidence must be included in the offer for  partners in a joint offer and/or subcontractors only if the capacity of those entities is  necessary to satisfy the minimum economic, financial, technical and professional capacity  requirements. If any of the declarations or information provided proves to be false, EFSA 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 EFSA may  also refer to publicly available information, in particular evidence that it can access on a  national database free of charge.  Your offer will be assessed for compliance with the tender specifications before its  assessment against the award criteria. Tenders do not comply with the tender specifications and will be rejected if they:  2.5 COMPLIANCE WITH TENDER SPECIFICATION AND MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS  The grounds for rejection is not linked to the award criteria so there is no evaluation. The  tenderer will be informed of the grounds for rejection without being given feedback on the  content of the tender other than on the non-compliant elements.   do not comply with minimum requirements laid down in the tender specifications; propose a solution different from the one imposed;   propose a price above the fixed maximum set in the specifications;  are submitted as variants, when the specifications do not authorise them;   do not comply with applicable obligations under environmental, social and labour law  established by Union law, national law and collective agreements or by the  international environmental, social and labour law provisions listed in Annex X to  Directive 2014/24/EU 9 and compliance with data protection obligations resulting  from Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 10 .  9  OJ L 94 of 28.03.2014, p. 65 10  Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection  of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies  and on the free movement of such data and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No  1247/2002/EC,  OJ  L  295/39  21.11.2018,  https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal- content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R1725&from=EN  15 