Draft supplier comparison table

§1Consultation and window

§1.1Window

Opened

28 April 2025

Closed

28 May 2025

Duration

30 days

Status

Closed — the disposition is published

Document under consultation

Document series

Submissions received

14

§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.

1. Does presenting suppliers in a sortable table invite a ranking claim the Institute does not make?
2. Should a field be shown as unverified, or should the column be absent where verification was not possible for most suppliers?
3. Is the default sort order defensible, given that any default carries an implication?

§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 table was ratified with amendments. The default sort is alphabetical, a standing statement above the table records that the ordering is not a ranking, and unverified fields are shown as unverified rather than left blank.

The disposition table, listing each submission with its disposition and the resulting amendment, is at §3.