PLA Evaluation Event with materials

PLA Event on Issues in Evaluating Public Sector Tenders

21 June 2010
Time: 10.30 am - 12.30 am (followed by lunch)

Venue: Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square Manchester

1 July 2010
Time: 4 pm - 6 pm (followed by drinks reception)

Venue: Olswang, 90 High Holborn, London

At the events the PLA introduced its Working Group Paper on Issues in Evaluating Public Sector Tenders.  The paper picks up on a number of controversial issues in evaluation and provides views as to how current uncertainties may be resolved.

The substantial part of the events were dedicated to an interactive case study, picking up on some of the more difficult issues in evaluation and challenging participants to apply their thoughts to scenarios to be presented to them.

We also considered the ways in which scoring models can be manipulated to produce different results and heard from colleagues in the public sector on their own experiences of the challenges presented by evaluation.

Event Materials - Manchester

Agenda 

Speaker Biographies 

Case Study Instructions

Slides: Issues in Evaluation Public Sector Tenders - Melanie Collier, Olswang

Slides: Public Procurement Evaluation by Evidence-based Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis - Professor Jian Bo Yang, Manchester Business School

Slides: Evaluation - Public Sector Experience - Desmond Gardner, Manchester City Council