Annual Portable Appliance Testing

Lot awarding rule: Quality - 30% Price - 70% Quality Break down - 5.1 Programme Delivery 10% 5.2 Quality Assurance 10% 5.3 Social Value 10% Sub-total 30% Non-Price elements will be judged on a score from 0 to 5, which shall be subjected to a multiplier to reflect the weighting. Therefore, a specific quality questions worth 20% will have a 0 - 5 score and a multiplier of 4. The 0 - 5 score shall be based on: 0 Question is not answered or the response is completely unacceptable 1 Very poor response and not acceptable – fails to meet minimum requirement/standard. 2 Poor response only partially satisfying requirement/ minimum standard, with deficiencies apparent. 3 Response is acceptable and meets minimum requirement but remains basic and could have been expanded upon. 4 Response meets our expected requirement/standard and exceeds minimum expectations, including a level of detail, which adds value to the bid. 5 Excellent response. Comprehensive and useful. No weakness noted. The response includes a full description of techniques and measurements to be employed. Price will be evaluated on the following criteria - The lowest priced compliant quotation will be divided by each contractors submitted price, which is then multiplied by the price weighting and rounded to two decimal places.