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Some City Council tendering exercises combine PQQ and ITT within a single process while others keep them separate.

PQQ-type elements include:
• equality policy (with implementation strategy, equality plan and monitoring and review procedures);
• both sustainability and environmental policies (they appear to equate sustainability with corporate social responsibility);
• employer’s liability (£10m), public liability (£5m or £10m) & professional indemnity (£100k) insurances;
• business continuity plan;

The number of different insurances available is increasing all the time and it is becoming possible to insure yourself and your organisation against every conceivable risk. However it can be difficult to know what is actually necessary and appropriate for the needs of your organisation and what is not or even not allowed. There are a few basic types of insurance that the majority of groups will usually need to have. There is then a further group of insurances which, due to the size or the specific activities of a group, may be necessary.

Sometimes procurement consists of a single stage - in general, the larger the contract, the more stages there are in the proces. The following sets out the typical stages:

Pre Qualification Questionnaire

There's an increasing amount of talk about "working in partnership" - so much, in fact, that it's sometimes difficult to be clear about what this means. What for example is the difference between a "partner" and a "stakeholder"? Is there a difference between "working in partnership" and simply “working together”?

MACC is increasingly involved in supporting "working in partnership" at a number of levels. Much of the rest of this website talks about Strategic Partnerships - where the focus in on the statutory and voluntary sectors thinking and planning together at a city-wide level.