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    Swedish tender review under LOU

    You are bidding on a Swedish public-sector tender. Selection criteria, award criteria, and mandatory contract clauses must align with Lagen om offentlig upphandling (LOU) and the EU procurement directives.

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    Tool calls11
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    How the gateway answered

    Captured 2 July 2026 — a point-in-time run; corpora and tools have been updated since.

    Captured sessionClaude (MCP client) · company tier · gateway.ansvar.eu
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    What does Lagen om offentlig upphandling (LOU, SFS 2016:1145) require for selection criteria, award criteria, exclusion grounds, and mandatory contract clauses? Cite the LOU articles plus the corresponding EU Directive 2014/24/EU provisions. (For a real tender review, attach the tender pack and the workflow will pair every requirement against the actual document.)

    Ansvar gateway — 11 tool calls
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:13:1")→ LOU 13 kap. 1 § full text — mandatory exclusion grounds; the row carries riksdagen's version marker 'Upphör att gälla U:2026-07-01'
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:13:3")→ LOU 13 kap. 3 § full text — nine discretionary exclusion grounds; the provision cross-references LUF, LUK and LUFS
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:14:1")→ LOU 14 kap. 1 § full text — the three permitted qualification-requirement families, subject-matter link, proportionality
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:16:1")→ LOU 16 kap. 1 § full text — economically most advantageous tender; the three evaluation grounds
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:16:2")→ LOU 16 kap. 2 § full text — subject-matter link, life-cycle rule, effective competition, no unlimited freedom of choice
    get_provision(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:17:1")→ LOU 17 kap. 1 § full text — special environmental, social and labour-law conditions on contract performance
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    search(query="obligatoriska uteslutningsgrunder leverantör brott" jurisdictions=[SE])→ 6 results from 8 servers; premium fan-out dispatched search_preparatory_works + search_case_law + search_agency_guidance — Prop. 2021/22:5, Prop. 2021/22:120, Prop. 2024/25:116 and LUK 11 kap. 4 a §; two off-topic rows (GDPR Art. 40, NJA 1991 s. 138) discarded
    search(query="tilldelningskriterier ekonomiskt mest fördelaktiga an…" jurisdictions=[SE])→ 6 results from 8 servers — LOU 16 kap. 1 §, LUF 4 kap. 10 §, Prop. 2015/16:195; predecessor-regime rows (SFS 2007:1091, Prop. 2006/07:128, Prop. 2010/11:150) discarded
    search(query="kvalificeringskrav teknisk yrkesmässig kapacitet upph…" jurisdictions=[SE])→ 6 results from 8 servers — LOU 14 kap. 1 §, LUF 14 kap. 11 §, LUK 12 kap. 2 §, Prop. 2015/16:195
    search(query="exclusion grounds mandatory abnormal low tenders publ…" jurisdictions=[EU])→ 6 results from 16 servers — Directive 2014/24/EU text is not in the corpus; one on-topic hit: CJEU case-law metadata for C-267/18 (ECLI:EU:C:2019:393, Art. 57(4) optional exclusion); the rest were product regulations mentioning procurement, discarded
    validate_citation(jurisdiction="SE" canonical_ref="2016:1145:13:1")→ Citation valid — SE 2016:1145 13:1 exists and is retrievable; full provision text returned
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    LOU, provision by provision — what a review board actually cites

    Every provision below was fetched in this run: six get_provision calls against Lag (2016:1145) om offentlig upphandling (LOU), plus premium search fan-outs whose preparatory-works pass returned the government bills behind the act. The paraphrases track the fetched text.

    Exclusion grounds — 13 kap.

    • LOU 13 kap. 1 § — mandatory exclusion. A contracting authority shall exclude a supplier when a legally final judgment covers organised crime (Framework Decision 2008/841/RIF), bribery or corruption, fraud against the EU's financial interests, money laundering or terrorist financing (Directive (EU) 2015/849), terrorist offences (Directive (EU) 2017/541), or trafficking in human beings (Directive 2011/36/EU). If the supplier is a legal person, exclusion follows when a member of its administrative, management or supervisory organ was convicted. The fetched row opens with riksdagen's version marker /Upphör att gälla U:2026-07-01/ — this wording was replaced on 1 July 2026, the day before this capture, so a reviewer would pull the successor wording before relying on the fine print.
    • LOU 13 kap. 3 § — discretionary exclusion. The authority may exclude for: breach of environmental, social or labour-law obligations; bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings; grave professional …
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