Does this approach squeeze out smaller organisations?
No. DWP actively encourages an innovative and competitive marketplace and works with larger providers to ensure that they understand the need to achieve diversity in the service delivery and that optimum use is made of the specialist services offered by smaller providers. As part of the tender evaluation process, we ask bidders to tell us how they will fully meet the varied needs of all customers; it is unlikely that any one organisation could adequately demonstrate their ability to meet all of these needs without some specialist support. In addition, we ask bidders to give details of all their sub-contractors in their tenders and we take into account the skills and experience of the sub-contractors during the tender assessment process. It is therefore in the interest of potential prime contractors to engage with suitable specialist organisations to enhance their delivery.
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