Scoring logic

There is no weighting assigned to evaluation of the selection questionnaire on Cimple, instead it will always be reviewed as a pass/fail assessment and used to qualify applicants for further evaluation. 

Based on the answer to section 2 (Mandatory Exclusion Grounds), applicants may be flagged as an automated fail to the evaluators. However, evaluators will always be able to overturn this flag and pass suppliers at their discretion.

Questions in this section can be scored as either pass/fail or given a percentage weighting. If the questions have been given a percentage weighting, the scoring is calculated in a two-step process:

Step 1: individual evaluator scores are calculated based on the section weighting. 

• Evaluator A scores 85 out of 100 for an applicant’s commercial response

• The opportunity has an overall evaluation weighting of:

  • Commercial: 50%

  • Technical: 40%

  • Social: 10%

• Evaluator A’s score is adjusted based on the overall weighting for this section

  • Evaluator A’s score for the commercial section is 85 * (50/100) = 42.5%

• Section total is calculated for each evaluator that scores this section

  • Evaluator A = 42.5%

  • Evaluator B = 41%

  • Evaluator C = 45% etc…

Step 2:overall scores are calculated for each section 

• Find the average of all evaluator scores for the section

  • (Evaluator A + Evaluator B + Evaluator C) / 3 = final score for commercial section

• From the example above the overall commercial score for this application would be:

  • (42.5 + 41 + 45) / 3 = 42.83%

• Round to 2 decimal places