Selection criteria

When you respond to a tender notice you may well be asked to complete a supplier evaluation questionnaire. This enables us to assess an organisation's suitability for delivering a particular service, product or works. This short-listing process saves both our time and yours in effort being unnecessarily spent on completing tender documents by companies who do not meet the selection criteria.

If you are successful in your application for a tender you will be forwarded a set of tender documents as well as a pre-qualification questionnaire depending on whether a “restricted” or “open” procedure is used.

Returned tenders are evaluated against a predetermined criteria usually by a panel of officers. Evaluation will focus on examining how the tender proposals will deliver the service (quality) and the cost of the service (price) over its whole life. This would give consideration to operating costs, repairs and maintenance charges, anticipated lifespan and ultimate disposal fees for any product or service.

Please see the following tips for completing a tender MS Word 173Kb.