Module v2.0 · Required
Evaluate Suppliers and Manage Procurement Risk
Make supplier decisions traceable, comparable, and proportionate to the work, evidence, and operating risk.
Build a weighted supplier scorecard; normalize price, timing, and service assumptions; distinguish evidence from claims; identify operational and continuity dependencies; document proportionate review triggers; and produce a decision record that qualified stakeholders can challenge or approve.
Define criteria and evidence
Decide what matters before supplier preference enters the process.
Evaluation criteria should trace back to the approved need: capability, capacity, quality, delivery, support, total cost, continuity, information handling, service fit, and relevant evidence. Weight only what truly changes the decision. If a criterion is not important enough to explain, it may not belong in the scorecard.
Label each input as verified evidence, supplier assertion, customer assumption, estimate, or unresolved question. This makes the decision record honest about what is known and gives the next reviewer a clear follow-up list.
- Translate each material requirement into a criterion or pass-fail gate
- Define the evidence source and reviewer for each criterion
- Set weights or rationale before reading supplier responses
- Record missing evidence without silently scoring it as a pass
- Criteria connect to the stated need
- Scoring instructions are understandable to another reviewer
- Evidence, claims, assumptions, and estimates are distinguished
- The record explains why a criterion matters