{"id":448,"date":"2015-11-25T17:27:40","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T17:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/?post_type=question&#038;p=448"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T10:26:37","slug":"is-the-council-just-looking-for-the-cheapest-option","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/question\/is-the-council-just-looking-for-the-cheapest-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the council just looking for the cheapest option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em>It is extremely rare for a tender to be evaluated on price alone. The method used for evaluating tenders is described as \u201cmost economically advantageous tender\u201d which means that a mixture of quality and price criteria would be used to evaluate all responses. \u00a0These criteria are weighted, dependant on their importance; price is quite often less than 50% of any evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"faq-topic":[5],"faq-tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","faq-topic-procurement-faqs"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-topic?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"faq-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/economy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}