Our evaluation process will be specific to each tender. Here's a summary of our evaluation process.
Compliance with specification
We check for compliance with national, European and international standards but also make every effort to ensure our specifications are flexible enough to allow you to offer your range of products and alternative methods of production.
Specifications for services will ask you to tell us how you will meet the outcomes we require and how well you understand our priorities and objectives. Here we would expect you to provide a detailed method of work, written statements and a timed project plan.
Capacity
We'll require you to have the ability to sustain the contract over its lifetime.
We would expect you to be able to maintain a regular supply of goods, services or works that are not adversely affected by fluctuations in demand by your other customers or by us.
For example, we need to be satisfied that spare parts would be readily available during the useful life of a product. In some areas, we may also expect that you are able to adapt your supply to meet changing regulations and standards.
Cost
This is the cost of the goods or services to us. We'll consider the net cost including, where appropriate, the life cycle cost of the product - which includes the cost of acquisition, operation and disposal.
Insurance
We will require you to have certain minimum amounts of insurance cover (such as public liability, employers liability and professional indemnity) dependant on the nature of the contract (see general terms and conditions for more information).
Compliance with our policies and priorities adding Social Value
We have a number of corporate policies with which we seek to align our contracts.
We want to deal with you if you can help us to maximise the Suffolk £ by helping us achieve our policy objectives and to add Social Value (Economic, Environmental or Social benefits) through the delivery of goods and services in our contracts. You can find further information regarding Social Value on our Social Value webpage including the Councils annual Social Value Ask, an ideas list regarding how you can offer Social Value inline with our Corporate Objectives is on
Quality
We expect you to tell us which relevant quality approvals you hold and the systems you operate to ensure supplies of goods or services are maintained to the standards agreed in the contract.
Will also look for:
