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Term: Technical evaluation

The process by which the client assesses the technical compliance (a yes/no judgment against the technical mandatory requirements, if any) and technical merit (measured using rated criteria) of each proposal, excluding submission mandatories and price. Constrained by evaluation criteria available in the RFP, although in less detail than one usually …

Term: Technical mandatory

Shorthand for “mandatory technical requirement.” A condition specifying Work that must be done, how, or to what standard for a bid to be considered compliant. Not all RFPs have technical mandatories. If the are applicable in a given RFP, they are assessed on a pass/fail basis as part of the …