Common use of Continuous Improvement, Value for Money and Benchmarking Clause in Contracts

Continuous Improvement, Value for Money and Benchmarking. (i) The Customer shall regularly benchmark the Contract Charges and performance of the Goods and Services, against other suppliers providing goods and services substantially the same as the Goods and Services during the Contract Period in order to compare the Contract Charges and level of performance of the Services and delivery of the Goods with charges and service offered by third parties so as to provide the Customer with information for comparison purposes. (ii) The Customer shall be entitled to use any model to determine the achievement of value for money and to carry out the benchmarking evaluation referred to in paragraph (i) above. (iii) The Customer shall be entitled to disclose the results of any benchmarking of the Contract Charges and provision of the Goods and Services to the Authority and other Contracting Bodies. (iv) The Supplier shall use all reasonable endeavours and act in good faith to supply information required by the Customer in order to undertake the benchmarking referred to in this paragraph 5.6, such information requirements to be at the discretion of the Customer.

Continuous Improvement, Value for Money and Benchmarking. (i) The Customer 5.6.1 Further to the Framework Schedule 7, the Supplier shall regularly benchmark the Contract Charges and performance of the Goods and Services, against other suppliers providing goods and services substantially the same as the Goods and Services during the Contract Period in order to compare the Contract Charges and level of performance of the Services and delivery of the Goods with charges and service services offered by third parties that provide services which are similar to the Services so as to provide the Customer with information for comparison purposes. (ii) 5.6.2 The Customer shall be entitled to use any model to determine the achievement of value for money and to carry out the benchmarking evaluation referred to in paragraph (i) 5.6.1 above. (iii) 5.6.3 The Customer shall be entitled to disclose the results of any benchmarking of the Contract Charges and provision of the Goods and Services to the Authority and other Contracting Bodies. (iv) 5.6.4 The Supplier shall use all reasonable endeavours and act in good faith to supply information required by the Customer in order to undertake the benchmarking referred to in this paragraph 5.6, such information requirements to be at the discretion of the Customer.