# **Added Value**

Added value in [tenders](https://tendersalerts.com/instant) refers to the additional benefits provided by the contractor or supplier to the announcing body, alongside fulfilling the basic project requirements. Added value acts as a preferential factor that helps distinguish competitive bids.

## **Types of Added Value**

- **Improving Execution Quality**: Providing materials or services of higher quality than required.
- **Reduced Costs**: Offering an economical bid while maintaining the required quality.
- **Innovative Technologies**: Using advanced technological solutions to accelerate or improve execution.
- **Enhancing [Local Content](https://tendersalerts.com/articles/etimad-local-lists)**: Employing national workforce or using local materials.

## **Importance of Added Value**

- **Achieving Exceptional Objectives**: Such as improving efficiency, speeding up delivery, or enhancing sustainable development.
- **Enhancing Bid Competitiveness**: Suppliers and [contractors](https://tendersalerts.com/c/activities-tenders/contracting) can improve their chances of [winning](https://tendersalerts.com/faq/how-to-improve-win-chances) by offering added value.
- **Increasing Announcing Body Satisfaction**: By providing services that exceed expectations.

## **How to Evaluate Added Value**

- **Setting Criteria**: Clarifying the additional benefits that can be assessed in the [tender](https://tendersalerts.com/instant) documents.
- **Measuring Impact**: Analyzing the financial or executional impact of the added value.
- **Adding Evaluation Points**: Allocating extra points for bids that offer clear added value.

## **Challenges Associated with Added Value**

- **Difficulty in Measurement**: It can be challenging to determine the true impact of added value.
- **Increased Cost**: Providing added value might increase overall costs.
- **Information Manipulation**: Some competitors may claim to offer added value without clear evidence.

## **Its Role in Tenders**

- Encouraging innovation in bidding.
- Improving the quality of project execution.
- Achieving additional strategic objectives such as supporting local content.

Added value is considered an important indicator of competitors' ability to provide innovative and efficient solutions that meet the announcing body's needs in a manner exceeding basic requirements.