Draft supplier evaluation rubric
Consultation on the rubric by which the Institute assesses a supplier dossier. The rubric scores documentary and analytical practice; it does not score product quality, and the draft was released for comment principally because respondents to an earlier…
§1Consultation and window
§1.1Window
- Opened
- 6 August 2023
- Closed
- 20 September 2023
- Duration
- 45 days
- Status
- Closed — the disposition is published
- Document under consultation
- Evaluation rubric
- Submissions received
- 10
§1.2Consultation questions
The secretariat put the following questions. A submission was not required to address them and several did not; the questions record what the Institute was uncertain about rather than restricting what a respondent could raise.
- Is the weighting between analytical evidence and documentary practice defensible, given that a supplier can score well on documentation while releasing material on a certificate it did not itself generate?
- Does the rubric state clearly enough what a score does not establish?
- Is any criterion in the draft one that a supplier could satisfy without any change to what it actually does?
§1.3How a submission is handled
- Every submission is signed. The Institute publishes no anonymous submission.
- Every submission carries a declared interest. A declaration of no interest is itself a declaration and is recorded as one. A declaration is not a disqualification and the Institute has never given a submission less weight on that ground.
- A submission from an employee of a marketing-authorisation holder is identified as an industry submission on its face, following a unanimous consultation on the conflicts policy.
- Every submission receives a secretariat response and a disposition. Submissions that are not accepted remain published in full; the Institute does not remove a submission because it disagrees with it.
- There is no voting, no reputation score, no reply thread and no editing after receipt.
§1.4Outcome
The rubric was amended in several respects before ratification, most substantially by the addition of a standing statement, printed at the head of every dossier, that a rubric score assesses evidence and documentation rather than product quality.
The disposition table, listing each submission with its disposition and the resulting amendment, is at §3.