North East Rural Livelihood Project

NERLP shall ensure confidentiality of proprietary information and shall also ensure confidentiality, as required, if the complaint is received during the pre-award stage.

Post award, if a supplier, contractor, consultant who wishes to ascertain the grounds on which their bid/proposal was not selected, they can request for a debriefing. The purpose of such meeting is only to discuss the bidder’s/supplier’s bid/proposal -- to inform the losing bidders/consultants of the strengths and weaknesses of their bid or proposal, and the reasons why they were not selected in order to enable them to strengthen their competitive performance in the next round of bidding. The party requesting debriefing shall bear all their costs of attending such a debriefing meeting. NERLP will ensure confidentiality of proprietary information during the debriefing process.