Quality Standards and Tendering:

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Quality Standards and Tendering
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Aim

• To outline the part played by quality standards
  in the procurement of public services through
  tendering.

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Outcomes

• Increased awareness of procurement regulations
  governing quality standards
• Greater understanding of what evidence of quality
  purchasers look for
• Increased understanding of how quality standards
  can influence the scoring of tenders

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Public Contract Regulations

• In tendering the Purchaser is required to
• assess the quality of the goods and services
• being offered by the applicant

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Public Contract Regulations

• The purchaser must determine what
• Measures for ensuring quality
• Environmental management measures
• The applicant has in place

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What does quality mean?

• Task

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Contract Regulations Reg.25

• certification by
• official quality control institutes
• or
• agencies of recognised competence

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Contract Regulations Reg.25

• Quality assurance certification
• attesting conformity to quality assurance
  standards based on the relevant European
• standard official quality control institutes
• and
• from an independent body

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Contract Regulations Reg.25

• Environmental management certification
• based on
• the Community Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
  (EMAS)
• or
• the relevant European or international standards
  (ISO 14000)

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Contract Regulations Reg.25

• Environmental management certification
• based on
• and
• from an independent body
• or
• any other equivalent evidence of environmental
  management measures

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Quality mark quiz

• quiz

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Now score this!

• A standard question on the Pre-Qualifying
• Questionnaire (PQQ) for tenders is
• Does your organisation hold a recognised quality
  management certification for example BS/EN/ISO
  9000 or equivalent?
• If not, does your organisation have a quality
  management system?

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Now score this! (contd)

• If you do not have quality certification or a
  quality management system, please explain why

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Now score another one!

• Another standard question on the PQQ is
• Does your organisation have an environmental
  management system?

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Next steps

• written quality statement for your organisation
• Written environmental management scheme for your
  organisation
• How you will monitor and audit these
• Consideration of relevant quality marks

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Resources

• Quality Distance Learning Workbook
• www.haringey.gov.uk/quality_workbook.pdf

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Quality Standards and Tendering

• Lloyd Davis
• Ladsons Ltd
• lloyd_at_ladsons.com
• www.ladsons.com
• 07939 120259