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A Financial Risk Assessment Tool (FRAT) and accompanying guidance has been provided as part of the attachments to the PSQ. Prospective Bidders are required to read these documents thoroughly and follow the instructions in order to complete the self-assessment prior to the PSQ submision deadline. If the Prospective Bidder has failed or flagged as a risk for any of the self-assessment metrics, they should contact WMCA via the Bravo messaging function to explain the situation and agree a range of risk mitigation measures with the WMCA Finance Team during the clarification period of the PSQ. Any Prospective Bidder that has failed or flagged as a risk for any of the self-assessment metrics and has not engaged with the WMCA Finance Team during the clarification period will be deemed to have failed the Financial Standing condition of participation. WMCA will only engage with Prospective Bidders to discuss their Financial Risk Assessment results prior to the PSQ submision deadline.

3 x Technical Ability questions, scored in line with the WMCA Scoring Matrix, found at Annex A of the PSQ Guidance document in the attachments to the PSQ. The score for each question will be added together to give a Total Score for each Prospective Bidder who passes the other conditions of participation. All Prospective Bidders who receive a Total Score will be ranked. The top 10 ranked Prospective Bidders will be invited to tender.

Responses to this PSQ will first be checked for compliance and completeness. WMCA reserves the right to reject any submissions that do not comply with the requirements of this PSQ, that are incomplete in any way or that are submitted after the applicable deadline. Submissions rejected due to being uncompliant or incomplete will not be evaluated. All compliant and complete PSQ responses will progress to PSQ evaluation. The Pass/Fail elements of the PSQ will be evaluated first, any response that receives a ‘Fail’ on any of the Pass/Fail elements will be rejected and will not have any Scored elements evaluated and will not progress any further in the procurement. All responses that ‘Pass’ all Pass/Fail elements will progress to the evaluation of Scored questions and will receive a Total Score. The minimum quality requirement for this PSQ is to reach a Total Mark equal to or above 60% of the total available marks. Any supplier not reaching this minimum threshold will not be considered any further within the process. WMCA intends to shortlist the top ten (10) scoring Prospective Bidders who will be Invited to Tender that have met the applicable Conditions of Participation. Where multiple Prospective Bidders meeting the Conditions of Participation score the same total score which is within the highest-scoring scores, WMCA shall take forward all such Prospective Bidders, even if this exceeds the maximum threshold. Where a shortlisted Bidder withdraws, is disqualified or otherwise rejected within the period prior to the issue of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) then WMCA reserves the right to take through the next highest scoring Prospective Bidder to replace them.