Details on exclusion grounds can be found in the Procurement Journey.
Any selection criteria deemed relevant and proportionate to your procurement exercise must be tested through the Single Procurement Document (SPD). Guidance has been produced to encourage public bodies to include climate change selection criteria regarding environmental management measures.
Where relevant and proportionate, it may be appropriate to ask bidders to operate to an environmental management standard (ISO14001 or equivalent) where climate change adaptation is an important risk within a planned procurement and evidence of systems and processes to manage resilience is required.
ISO14001, for example, includes the requirement to understand:
Within the Annex 3 are examples of climate change adaptation wording that may be used for this purpose.
