Firms and organisations that are awarded tenders are acting on behalf of Dover District Council and will be expected to comply with current equality legislation in the same manner as the Council, in both employment and service delivery.
Dover District Council is committed to ensuring equality in every aspect of its service provision. The Council will always promote equality of opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, gender, disability, age, faith or sexual orientation, both in the delivery of its services and in the employment of staff. It will also ensure that full consideration is given to diversity, human rights and user focus as part of the delivery of all its services.
A guidance document has been produced.
Procurement - Equality guidance - (PDF format)
To enable Dover District Council to monitor their suppliers for equality we will be contacting them all over a fixed period of time.
We will also be introducing a new section to the pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) that is issued with all formal tender documents.
An example of the letter we will be sending and the updated PQQ wording are shown here, together with our timetable for this
2006/07 – Letters sent to all current suppliers with annual spend of £30k+
2006/07 – PQQ– questionnaire added to all new tenders
2007/08 – Letters sent to all current suppliers with annual spend of £50k+
2006/07 – Sample Letters sent to all current suppliers (PDF)
2006/07 – PQQ – Sample questionnaire added to all new tenders (PDF)
