Edward Argar – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Edward Argar on 2016-05-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what criteria her Department uses to determine the award of contracts for projects overseas.

Mr Desmond Swayne

To determine the award of contracts, tenders are assessed against pre-defined and published evaluation criteria by an evaluation panel with relevant expertise. This assessment follows the EU Public Procurement principle of selecting the ‘most economically advantageous tender’. The evaluation has two main sections – technical evaluation and commercial evaluation.