Achieving Business Excellence Frameworking Toolkit
Preparing the Papers
QBS process map
Preparing the OJEU notices:
- Frameworks and EU procurement rules
- What the framework must establish
- What the notice must contain.
Quality based selection
- Procedure for awarding framework agreement
- Assessment models and score sheets
- Pre-qualification questionnaire
- Invitation to negotiate.
Framework protocol
Keeping members informed about:
- protecting the council's interests
- consultation between key officers
- expected outcome and timescale.
Ensuring that the OJEU notice and proposed QBS process:
- comply with legal requirements of the EU, UK and Council's standing orders
- provide a satisfactory audit trail
- protect the council's financial interests.
External stakeholders nominated to the selection panel will:
- need to understand the QBS process
- be involved in formulating the quality criteria and scoring system.
Continue
- 1. Demonstrating the need
- 2. Seeking approval
- 3. Preparing the papers
- 4. Pre-qualifying
- 5. Short listing
- 6. Negotiating
- 7. Appointing
- 8. Allocating projects
- 9. Constructing
- 10. Operating and maintaining
