Before using this agreement you must have internal agreement from your organisation. You should read the Buyer guide before starting your procurement.
To appoint a supplier you will need to run a further competition. There is no direct award option for this agreement.
You can use your own eSourcing system or our eSourcing tool to run your further competition. If this is your first time using our eSourcing suite, you will need to register an account.
Read guidance on using our eSourcing tool.
We suggest you engage with potential suppliers and get their feedback (pre-market engagement) before running a further competition. It’s a good opportunity for you to define your needs and it allows suppliers to consider the opportunity before the competition begins.
To run a further competition you will need to:
- Run pre-market engagement with suppliers (recommended but optional).
- Identify the lot that meets your needs and develop your specification.
- make sure your specification is detailed and includes timescales and scope
- Complete your further competition documents.
- Invite all suppliers from the relevant lot to submit a tender in writing.
- you can do this through your preferred e-Sourcing tool, or you can use our eSourcing portal. If this is your first time using our eSourcing suite, you will need to register an account
- Set a time limit for suppliers to submit tenders.
- make sure you take into account the time needed to create and submit tenders and the complexity of your needs
- Include a presentation stage if required (optional).
- Keep each tender confidential until the time limit set out for the return of tenders has ended.
- Make sure you evaluate all supplier responses equally and fairly.
- Award your call-off contract.Provide unsuccessful suppliers with written feedback on why their tenders were unsuccessful
- Where appropriate, publish the award on find a tender service.
Pricing
All pricing is determined through further competition. There is no pricing held at the framework agreement level.
Pricing models include:
- fixed payment
- net profit payment
- minimum guaranteed payment and the top-up net profit payment
- management fee (Lot 5 only)