4.13 The Prequalification Questionnaire serves two main purposes:
• it asks whether there are any grounds pursuant to which the NHSScotland body is either required by the Regulations to reject the participant (mandatory exclusion criteria) or may otherwise wish to reject the participant under Regulation 23 of the Regulations;
• it establishes whether participants have sufficient economic and financial standing, ability and technical capacity to be awarded the contract, enabling an initial sift of persons and organisations expressing interest in response to the OJEU notice to be taken forward to ITPD stage.
4.14 The Standard Prequalification Questionnaire (PQQ) can be accessed through the SGHD Capital Planning and Investment website. It is not envisaged that any changes will be required in respect of the Standard PQQ and scoring methodology save project specific reasons. Any non project specific changes must be discussed with Capital Planning and Asset Management Division.