A tender evaluation committee conducts a fair objective evaluation of the tenders received from the bidders following the criteria which were made known to the bidders in the first stage of tendering (RFP) and at the EOI stage. In the process of evaluation, the committee may require and ask for clarifications from the bidders. Generally, the tenders that do not meet the specified requirements (termed as "non-responsive") are excluded from the evaluation process.
The evaluation committee selects the preferred bidder and makes its recommendations to the concerned approving authority. For the sake of transparency in the process, the members of the evaluation committee can be asked to declare that they do not have any conflict between their personal or family interests and those of the project.