Overseas Trade
(asked on 1st March 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, how many bidders for the Trade Remedies Discovery Team contract, published on 13 February 2017, failed to meet the cultural fit criteria.
This question was answered on 9th March 2017
The Crown Commercial Service’s template for procuring complex digital specialists and/or outcomes includes a ‘cultural fit’ criteria, as this is considered important in the digital marketplace. The cultural fit criteria is not disaggregated across its four components.
The bid evaluation is ongoing.
No Ministers were involved in the contract process.