It is good practice to ask bidders to submit with their tender a method statement setting out how they will achieve the sustainability requirements. This can then form part of the quality assessment score for the tender.
The Legal Shelf offers the following advice:-
It is good practice to ask bidders to submit with their tender a method statement setting out
how they will achieve the sustainability requirements. This is then evaluated and scored, and
this score forms part of the quality assessment (score) for the tender.
One process would be to evaluate the method statement to ensure that it achieved a
required ‘threshold’ of acceptability and a pre-requisite for the tender being evaluated as a
whole.
An alternative and more sophisticated approach to the scoring of social requirements would
be to use a scoring framework that identified:
• the subjects where a response from the bidder was expected, with each subject given a weighting (number of points); and
• the types of actions that were expected to be offered under each subject, with each action then being given a weighting – a breakdown of the points available for that ‘subject’.
