What you will be able to do
- Apply the published criteria consistently, and only those
- Handle clarifications, errors and abnormally low bids correctly
- Manage conflicts of interest and confidentiality inside the committee
- Write an evaluation report that explains the decision
Who it is for
- Members and chairs of evaluation committees
- Procurement officers who prepare evaluation reports
- Internal controllers who review awards
Prerequisites
- Having taken part in at least one bid opening or evaluation
Program
Before the first bid is opened
- What the bidding documents commit the committee to
- Roles, independence and declarations of interest
- Preparing the evaluation grid
Examining bids
- Administrative, technical and financial compliance
- Clarification requests: what can and cannot be asked
- Arithmetic errors and abnormally low bids
Scoring and deciding
- Scoring scales that different evaluators apply the same way
- Disagreements in the committee and how to settle them
- Most advantageous bid: reading the result critically
The evaluation report
- The structure of a report that stands on its own
- Answering a complaint with the file
- Common audit findings and how to avoid them
How we work
- A complete evaluation simulated on a fictitious tender
- Role play of a committee meeting
- Review of anonymised evaluation reports
