Issue - meetings

To receive and consider report 52/09 of the Head of HR, IT and Customer Services. 

(Time: 3.48pm to 3.50pm)

The executive received and considered report 52/09 of the Head of HR, IT, and Customer Services.  The report proposed a new tender evaluation policy which had been jointly prepared with South Oxfordshire District Council to harmonise tendering processes with the Vale.  Officers had drafted the policy, incorporating best practice from both councils.  The draft policy:

·        ensured that the council bought supplies, services and works that best met the needs identified;

·        enabled the council to select the quote or tender which offered best value for money;

·        required that price formed at least 60 per cent of the evaluation criteria and award decision; and

·        made the tendering process open, transparent, fair and objective. 

The executive welcomed the policy, believing it would provide a more robust approach to evaluate tenders in the current financial climate. 

RESOLVED

thatthe tender evaluation policy be approved.