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Relevant environmental and social requirements may be specified but must be directly relevant to the goods and or services being procured. They should be set out as part of the evaluation criteria in the Tender Advert and defined sufficiently precisely within the Tender Documentation to allow bidders to understand the requirement and to allow the award of contract. Production process standards and eco label criteria can be referenced but alternatives which demonstrate equivalence must be considered.
Where certification to relevant accreditation bodies is being requested, these certificates should be checked to ensure that they are valid and relevant to the contract during the supplier due diligence phase.
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