The Delivering Community Services in Partnership (DCSP) Policy sets out a range of options for engaging service providers.
A competitive procurement process may be appropriate if:
- there is a large market, or multiple service providers who would be capable of providing the service
- your agency has not recently tested the market and the market has changed
- the service is of high strategic importance to your agency
This part of the guide for the community services competitive procurement process is divided into the following sections:
- developing your procurement strategy
- developing your Request
- advertising your Request
- evaluating offers and awarding the service agreement
If you know where you are going, you can go straight to the relevant section using the navigation pane on the right. If you are not familiar with the process, you can follow each page to go step by step through the procurement process.
Information is also available about managing the service agreement.