This manual has been prepared for public or private organisations contracting aviation security services, which are keen to ensure that they are selecting a provider who can combine quality with a favourable price, rather than settling for the lowest price bidder. It aims to provide these organisations with a user friendly tool designed to assist them in determining their requirements more clearly. A detailed specification of their own requirements will then allow them to select a contractor, who does not only offer a competitive price, but also demonstrates the skills to provide a higher quality, more reliable service.

 

The manual contains an easy to use framework for scoring bids, which is capable of being adapted to the requirements of each tendering organisation and aviation security services contract. The aim of this framework is to provide tendering organisations with maximum autonomy in defining quality criteria which are relevant to them, bearing in mind the requirements of EU regulations governing aviation security.

The online tool is available by clicking on the page best value assessment tool. For those wishing to use the tool offline, an Excel sheet has been developed with the same functionality. This can be downloaded from this page together with a brief manual on its use.