The use of contract award criteria

Tools facilitating the use of economically most advantageous tender criteria include model criteria for selected products, works or service categories

Review of administrative data and data from publicly available sources. Tools include guidelines, instructions, commentaries, interpretative communications or other operational tools.

Tools facilitating the use of economically most advantageous tender criteria include scoring systems

Review of administrative data and data from publicly available sources. Tools include guidelines, instructions, commentaries, interpretative communications or other operational tools.

Tools facilitating the use of economically most advantageous criteria include award strategies

Review of administrative data and data from publicly available sources. Tools include guidelines, instructions, commentaries, interpretative communications or other operational tools.

Tools facilitating the use of economically most advantageous tender criteria include methodology for the evaluation of tenders

Review of administrative data and data from publicly available sources. Tools include guidelines, instructions, commentaries, interpretative communications or other operational tools.

Tools facilitating the use of economically most advantageous tender criteria include methodologies on calculating life cycle costs

Review of administrative data and data from publicly available sources. Tools include guidelines, instructions, commentaries, interpretative communications or other operational tools.

Contracts awarded based on acquisition price only (%)

Analysis of administrative data to calculate the number of competitive procedures having the lowest price as the one and only award criterion, divided by the number of all competitive procedures commenced in the latest full calendar year, whether above or below the EU thresholds, but above the de minimis amount (contracts above EUR 10 000), expressed as a percentage. Points are allocated based on the percentage of procedures that were awarded based on acquisition price (x): • x > 88% = 0 points. • 88% ≥ x > 20% = linear function. • x ≤ 20% = 3 points.