eBook | Bidding Opportunities | Industry Specific | Market Intelligence | Buyer Contacts Proposal Writing | Buyer Products | Vendor Database | Professional Services Referrals 1. Establish Compliance | 2. Score the Proposals | 3. Impose Upset Levels | 4. Evaluate the Cost 5. Develop a Short-list | 6. Interview Suppliers | 7. Best and Final Offers | 8. Reference Checking The Eight Building Blocks of the Evaluation Process 5. Develop a Short-list Once an evaluation score has been determined for each proposal, this step is used to reduce the number of proposals to be evaluated in subsequent steps. Consider the following illustrative example. Eight proposals were evaluated and the following scores were assigned: 82, 80, 78, 72, 65, 63, 50, 48. We now wish to develop a short list. Let's first divide the scores into groups. A group consists of proposals with similar scores. The first group could be 82, 80, 78. There is some question as to which group the proposal scoring 72 should be in. It is always easier to justify keeping a proposal in the competition than disqualifying it. Since 72 is mid-way between 78 and 65, let's put the proposal with 72 in the first group. The next two groups are easier: one being 65 and 63; the other, 50 and 48. If we want to keep lots of proposals in the competition, we could eliminate only the lowest group: 50 and 48. If we want fewer proposals, we could eliminate the middle group as well: 65 and 63. It is neither fair nor defensible to eliminate a proposal that scored better than one that has been kept in. For example, we cannot drop the proposal with the score of 72 if we keep the one with the score of 65. If the proposal with the score of 72 was clearly inferior to the proposal with the score of 65, then our evaluation process was flawed. The proposal with the score of 65 is in fifth place and, most likely, there is little chance that it will emerge as the winner. If it becomes necessary to disqualify this proposal, we have to find some other way of doing it. In some jurisdictions, each major criterion has a lowest acceptable score that must be exceeded to remain in the competition. In some jurisdictions, the Evaluators are not strictly bound by the point scores. The Project Manager has the discretionary power to declare whether a one or two point difference in scores represents a significant difference in quality of the proposed solutions. This short-listing process produces a reduced list of proposals to be evaluated further. |
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