- Develop, with user, full Invitation To Tender (ITT)
- plus Evaluation Criteria and their Weightings
- Time & Cost Limited
- Cost 50/50 Shared – User/Agency
- Funding Level Published, so Evals are on Content Only
- Include Mid-Way Review & “contractual Break Point”
- Plus points for defined interaction with User & Agency
- Compile wide circulation list
- Condense ITT core to an Expression of Interest (EoI) call
- EoI only needs 1-2 page Response
- minimising impact on Responders and Evaluators
- Circulate EoI
- Down-select, against Eval Criteria, to some 6 for full ITT
- Circulate full ITT which includes:
- Cost/Benefit against current approach, and Eval Criteria for Compliance Checking
- Review against Eval Criteria
- Down-select to 2-3 for Interview
- Interview & Award
- Run, with close involvement of User & Agency
- (“Risk” shared – User & Agency)