Rule 192 — GFR

Rule 192 Quality and Cost Based Selection (QCBS): QCBS may be used for Procurement of consultancy services, where quality of consultancy is of prime concern.

(i) In QCBS initially the quality of technical proposals is scored as per criteria announced in the RFP. Only those responsive proposals that have achieved at least minimum specified qualifying score in quality of technical proposal are considered further.

(ii) After opening and scoring, the Financial proposals of responsive technically qualified bidders, a final combined score is arrived at by giving predefined relative weight ages for the score of quality of the technical proposal and the score of financial proposal.

(iii) The RFP shall specify the minimum qualifying score for the quality of technical proposal and also the relative weight ages to be given to the quality and cost (determined for each case depending on the relative importance of quality vis-a-vis cost aspects in the assignment, e.g. 70:30, 60:40, 50:50 etc). The proposal with the highest weighted combined score (quality and cost) shall be selected.

(iv) The weight age of the technical parameters i.e. non- financial parameters in no case should exceed 80 percent.