bassac ~ supporting people sustaining communitiesPreparing for commissioning
Self-assessment questionnaires for community-based organisations
The aim of this guide is to provide community-based organisations with a series of self-assessment questionnaires that will allow them to assess their preparedness to collaborate with others in order to tender for and deliver public service contracts.
This guide is not a definitive document. However, by working through the questionnaire and answering the questions honestly, organisations will be able to begin to assess if working with others is the right route for them and/or what they need to do to begin to work with others.
There are three checklists:
1: Are you geared up for commissioning?
This allows an organisation to assess if delivering public services under contract is right for it.
2: Are you prepared to collaborate for commissioning?
Part 2 allows an organisation and partners to assess if they are ready and understand what is required by collaborating with each other to deliver public services under contract.
3: What will be required?
Part 3 gives some indicators of the issues partners will need to address in order to work together to tender, win and deliver contracts.
Tender evidence checklist
In addition to the questionnaires, a checklist of the evidence generally requested when tendering is provided below:
Roles and responsibilities
A framework for working out the roles and responsible of all the partners involved in the collaboration can be mapped against the delivery requirements of the tender.
