Common use of Sufficient human resources Clause in Contracts

Sufficient human resources. Minimum Standard Experts for the profiles defined in the technical specification. (Provide signed CVs and academic documents) A tenderer may, where appropriate and for a particular contract, rely on the capacities of other entities, regardless of the legal nature of the links, which he has with these entities. In that case, the following rules apply: • Where an economic operator wants to rely on the capacities of other entities, it shall prove to the contracting authority that it will have at its disposal the resources necessary, for example, by producing a commitment by those entities to that effect. • The contracting authority shall verify whether the entities on whose capacity the economic operator intends to rely fulfil the relevant selection criteria and whether there are grounds for exclusion. • Where an economic operator relies on the capacities of other entities with regard to criteria relating to economic and financial standing, the contracting authority may require that the economic operator and those entities be jointly liable for the execution of the contract. • The contracting authority may require certain essential tasks to be carried out directly by the tenderer himself or, if the tender is submitted by a group of economic operators, by a member of the said group. Under the same conditions, a group of candidates or tenderers may submit the capacities of the group’s participants or of other entities.