Pagabo standstill period: what to do with your assessment summary before it ends

The dates, from the notice

These are read from award notice 094430-2026. Major Works and Civils bidders should use the date in their own assessment summary, which may differ.

A plan for the days that are left

• Day one: read the assessment summary line by line. List every criterion where you scored below the maximum, and note any score that looks wrong or inconsistent with your own submission.
• Day two: compare each low score with what your submission actually said. Mark whether the evaluator missed something that was there, or whether it was never there.
• Day three: take the findings to a procurement solicitor if there is any prospect of a challenge. They will tell you whether the facts support a claim and what the standstill date means for timing.
• Day four onward: put the challenge question aside and plan the route. Appointed firms are about to start call-offs and will be hiring capacity.

What a challenge needs

A challenge needs evidence that the process was applied wrongly, not that you disagree with the score. The strongest grounds are factual errors, an evaluator applying criteria not in the published documents, or inconsistent treatment between bidders. A lower score than you hoped is not, on its own, a ground.

We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice. We prepare the scoring analysis and a side-by-side of your submission against the criteria in 24 to 48 hours, which is what a solicitor needs to give you a view quickly.

What most suppliers do instead

Most unsuccessful bidders do not challenge. They use the assessment summary to find where they lost marks and aim at the next opportunity. That is a sound decision, as long as the next opportunity has a date. The live frameworks and the supply chain route are set out in the three routes back in.