Procurement User
Evaluate offers
Fix the criteria up front, make offers comparable, and document the decision so it holds up later.
- Duration: 25 min
- Level: In depth
- Read first: Raise a request
Evaluation is where anything vague in the tender comes back to bite.
Before publishing
Criteria and weighting are fixed before the first offer arrives. Weighting afterwards is not evaluating — it is justifying.
While comparing
- Same basis for everyone: answers from the question round go to all bidders.
- Record deviations instead of quietly smoothing them over.
After the decision
Write down why the decision went the way it did. That is not a formality — it is the answer to the question that arrives six months later.