PRE-QUALIFICATION CLARIFICATION No 2 TENDER TITLE: Research Panel TENDER REF: NWDA00296 Please find below questions raised and answers provided in relation to the above. Please confirm in your Questionnaire response that you have incorporated these questions and responses. Question 1:
Lot 4 Question J4 Influence: Please provide three examples of how your economic research has influenced key policies and strategies and how you have enabled this? If potential bidders only collect and supply data and do not get involved in the analysis and how it then translates into policy action, can you provide guidance on how this question should be answered?
Response:
Please respond in relation to whom you supply to and how these organisations use their data.
Question 2:
It is noted that you require 2 hard copies and one electronic copy of the PQQ. In addition various attachments are requested (company accounts, equality policy etc). Is a single hard copy of these sufficient, or do you require 2 hard copies and one electronic copy as per the PQQ.
Response:
2 hard copies of the complete submission, including attachments are required.
Question 3:
Do you require the PQQ response to be in a particular font size?
Response:
The Agency has not specified a font or a font size but the preferred format would be Arial size 11.
Question 4:
Question 1 in Lots 1 and 3: Do three examples of economic/environmental research methodologies mean: A.) an example of three methodologies used at all levels (i.e. local, regional and national)? or B.) an example of a methodology used at a local level, another methodology used regionally and a methodology used nationally?
Response:
It is an example of three methodologies used at all levels.
Question 5:
Please advise what the pass / fail criteria are for economic and financial capacity?
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Response:
As noted in the evaluation criteria within the Invitation to Tender document, this section will be assessed on a pass/fail basis for the level of economic and financial capacity required by the Agency to deliver the contract. If any applicant does not demonstrate it can meet the minimum threshold, it will not be considered further. The supplier must include a full submission of all documents requested in Section E. The supplier must have filed accounts on time for the last 3 years The Auditor’s opinion in the Report to the Accounts must be unqualified Liquidity Ratio must be above 1:1
Procurement Department Date of issue: 10th September 2009
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