Previous Tenders: Manchester City Council

A current City Council social care tendering exercise combines PQQ and ITT within a single process. 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;
• health and safety policy (with codes of safe working practice, emergency, first aid, welfare, health surveillance and reporting procedures, key statistics, examples of a risk assessment and a safe system of work – and various documents more appropriate to the construction industry!)

ITT-type elements include:

• partnership agreement (if applicable);
• method statement (how the service will be delivered).

Previous PQQ’s have also requested policies such as:

• Induction and training
• Confidentiality and record-keeping
• Quality assurance
• Complaints
• Involvement with money
• Safeguarding
• CRB checks