Conditions for Participation

Conditions for participation are the essential requirements set out in an approach to market: insurances, licences, accreditations, financial capacity, legal status, and sometimes security clearances. They are pass or fail. A response that does not meet every one of them can be excluded before the evaluation criteria are even reached, however strong the rest of it is. Read them first, before you decide to bid, because they are where most wasted tendering effort is lost.