DAERA – The Provision of Advertising & Related Services for DAERA Climate Change Public Awareness Campaign

This tender provides basic administrative information and a clear service description but suffers from critical deficiencies in detailed requirements and a complete absence of evaluation criteria, severely impacting clarity, completeness, and fairness.

While the procedure type and CPV codes are correctly assigned, the tender critically lacks detailed mandatory exclusion grounds, eligibility requirements, financial requirements, and, most importantly, evaluation criteria. This poses a significant risk to full compliance with transparency and equal treatment principles under procurement law.

The overall service description is clear, but the AI-extracted technical requirements are extremely vague and high-level. The complete absence of evaluation criteria makes it impossible for bidders to understand how their proposals will be judged, leading to significant ambiguity.

Basic administrative information, value, and duration are present. However, the tender is critically incomplete regarding essential requirements such as detailed mandatory exclusion grounds, eligibility, financial standing, and, most notably, all evaluation criteria.

Electronic submission is a positive for equal access. However, the complete absence of evaluation criteria is a fundamental flaw that severely undermines fairness and transparency, creating a high risk of subjective assessment. The vague requirements further contribute to this concern.

Electronic submission via eTendersNI is supported, and the contract start date and duration are clearly specified, which are practical aspects. The lack of a direct document URL in the provided snippet is a minor drawback.

The provided basic information is internally consistent, with logical dates and no conflicting data points. The issues identified relate to missing content rather than inconsistent data.

The tender includes an 'Innovation Focus' characteristic, and the campaign's subject matter (Climate Change) inherently relates to sustainability. However, the tender documentation does not explicitly incorporate green procurement or social criteria for the delivery of the services, which is a missed opportunity.