An outcome/ performance-based specification relating to climate change adaptation and supply resilience can be challenging for evaluators. An excellent response should be understood, when developing specifications and tender requirements, based on intended outcomes agreed by relevant stakeholders, including within a User Intelligence Group, where relevant. Evaluators should be clear what this excellent response looks like and the tender evaluation panel should have necessary skills and/or expertise.
Ensure the response answers the question and are aligned with the specification – does it provide evidence of how the requirement to either manage the planning and adaptation of relevant services or works, or the resilience of supplies will be delivered during the lifetime of the contract?
Responses which state the existence of bidder’s own policies or strategies are only relevant if such detail has been requested and if evidence is provided of how adaptation and resilience commitments contained within these will be applied in a relevant way to the contract.
Within Annex 3 are examples of wording relating to evaluation criteria that may be relevant within procurements.
