Evaluation of the implementation of the pilot ground Pioneer schools

✓The evaluation must coordinate with a parallel monitoring & evaluation assignment for inspiration-, pioniers- and CSF-ankerscholen (joint survey calendar, data‑triangulation, avoiding overburdening schools) and include confidential school feedback.

✓The award criteria and weightings are fully detailed.

✓Such as: the contract is awarded to the “economisch meest voordelige offerte” based on best price‑quality ratio.

✓Quality of the offer counts for 40/100 points with subcriteria: (i) causal design (15 pts), assessing how the proposed design allows credible attribution of effects to the evaluated intervention within data and contextual constraints; (ii) research design and plan of approach (15 pts), judging scientific quality, completeness, coherence of research questions, theory, methods, planning, project management, deliverables, risk management and detailed datamanagementplan; (iii) reuse of existing data and reduction of administrative burden on schools (5 pts), including explicit justification of any new data collection and per‑school‑year overview of planned school data collection and estimated time per school; (iv) relevance and usability of outputs for policy (5 pts).

✓Expertise of the team weighs 20/100 points, checking experience with similar evaluations, methodological expertise, knowledge of the Flemish compulsory education system, inclusive and special education, support, CLB, school development and change processes, interprofessional cooperation, and guarantees of objectivity vis‑à‑vis institutions being evaluated; CVs must be attached, and key staff can only be replaced with prior approval.

✓Price weighs 40/100 points, must lie within the given price range, and scores via the formula (lowest regular bid / examined bid) × 40. Only tenders scoring at least 75% overall on the qualitative and price criteria will be ranked.

✓Risks and special conditions are described mainly under execution rules and legal clauses.

❓Such as: communication for both tendering and execution must be electronic and in Dutch (exceptions only for bailiff writs and registered mail), and the bidder is bound by their offer for 120 days after the submission deadline (9 November 2026, 12:00).

✓Use of e‑Procurement and qualified electronic signatures (eID/eIDAS) on the submission report is mandatory; a scanned signature is invalid.

✓Subcontractors must not be subject to exclusion grounds, and confidentiality obligations and non‑discrimination conditions must be mirrored in their contracts.

✓Penalties: general “straffen” for defective performance (one‑off or daily, calculated per art. 45 KB Uitvoering) and vertragingsboetes for late performance per art. 154 KB Uitvoering, with intermediate deadlines treated as binding partial terms.

✓Price revision is possible once per report if the Belgian health index shifts by at least 3%, on request by the contractor; changes in taxes and unforeseeable circumstances can lead to contract adjustments, extension/shortening of deadlines, compensation or termination if a 15% threshold of advantage/disadvantage is reached.

✓There is an explicit clause on EU sanctions against Russia: no award if the bidder or more than 10% of the contract value via subcontractors/support entities has a prohibited Russian link; the bidder must declare which situation applies.

✓Payments are via e‑invoicing with specific procedures for interim invoices and final prestatiestaat; the contractor’s own payment terms are inapplicable, and payments are allocated first to principal, then interest (deviation from Belgian Civil Code art. 5.210).

✓Legal disputes must go before Dutch‑speaking Belgian courts.

✓A KMO may request a pre‑financing arrangement, but this must be explicitly indicated in the offer and will be agreed after award, with the advance offset against the final invoice.

✓Such as: the bestek itself states there are no deviations from the KB Uitvoering (“Nihil”); therefore all listed KB provisions apply except where the bestek expressly derogates (e.g. payment allocation).

✓Selection criteria are clarified in the infosessie (additional thematic expectations) but do not contradict the written bestek; they should be read as further explanation of “gelijkaardige projecten” and required expertise.

✓The infosessie also refines the understanding of belangenconflict: limited conflicts (e.g.

✓HEI partners not steering projects) can be mitigated through measures described in the offer, whereas steering roles in pioniersscholen/consortium constitute an unresolvable conflict, implying exclusion.