What it does not mean
It is not the final evidence: before award the buyer must, with limited exceptions, require supporting documents from the intended awardee.
In practice in Portugal
In procedures with a notice in the Official Journal, the DEUCP is presented (CCP, Article 57(6)).
In practice in Spain
The pliego must include the declaración responsable in a model that follows the ESPD form (LCSP, Article 141(1)).
When a mesa de contratación sits, it checks the declaration and gives three days to correct curable defects (Article 141(2)).
The EU rule behind both
Buyers must accept the ESPD as preliminary evidence and may ask for the supporting documents at any time. Before awarding they must ask the intended awardee for them, with limited exceptions (Directive 2014/24/EU, Articles 59(1) and (4)).
What you see on the notice
- TED: the exclusion and selection sections say where the grounds come from, for example “Sources of grounds for exclusion: Notice”; the form to complete is named in the notice text or the procedure documents.
- BASE: the portal has a DEUCP entry in its main menu.
How Sinal shows it
Read the source documents for the required form and submission; Sinal does not file an ESPD for you.
- Sinal does not fill in or submit an ESPD for you. The notice drawer links the original notice and tender documents, where the buyer explains how to submit it.
Questions people ask
How do I fill in the ESPD (DEUCP)?
The buyer says in the notice or the procurement documents what information it needs (Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/7, Annex 1), and the ESPD is provided exclusively in electronic form (Directive 2014/24/EU, Article 59(2)); the Commission offers a free ESPD service for it (Annex 1). You fill in your own details (Part II), the exclusion grounds (Part III), the selection criteria (Part IV), the reduction of candidates where the procedure uses it (Part V) and the concluding statement (Part VI); Part I is retrieved automatically for a notice in the Official Journal when that service is used (Annex 1). Each economic operator in a group, and each entity whose capacity you rely on, gives its own ESPD, and a procurement in lots needs one per lot, or per group of lots with the same selection criteria, where the criteria differ from lot to lot (Annex 1). You may reuse an earlier ESPD if you confirm the information is still correct (Directive, Article 59(1)); serious misrepresentation can lead to exclusion (Annex 1).
Example in a real notice
TED notice identifying the ESPD as preliminary evidence (notice text in Danish) ↗