The Capability Assessment is an in-depth assessment conducted by FPAL from responses provided to a capability profiling questionnaire (CPQ), and once completed removes the need for repetitive and generic pre-qualification activity within the industry. It should be viewed as a pre-qualification of your company to all FPAL Registered Purchasers.

The assessment is carried out across a maximum of 11 business characteristics or elements (although not all elements may apply to a specific business) with the results being expressed as a profile display.

There is no pass, fail or overall single score as a result of the assessment. It is designed to represent your company's capabilities and to allow your clients decide themselves on what is an acceptable standard for the work being considered.

How does it work?

Suppliers are invited to complete a CPQ submission after becoming fully registered.
Suppliers complete their CPQ submission and return it to FPAL for evaluation.
FPAL completes an evaluation across a maximum of 11 business characteristics and prepares a Supplier Capability Profile. This profile is supported by a Supplier Benchmarked Capability Profile to help the supplier better understand the acceptability of the FPAL scores.
FPAL makes available the evaluation results to the supplier for acceptance prior to release on the database.
Suppliers review their evaluations and either accept them and allow the data to be released on the database, or seek clarification and, if necessary make a re-submission. At worst, Suppliers may suppress the results in part or in total. ONLY AGREED AND ACCEPTED DATA IS MADE AVAILABLE TO REGISTERED PURCHASERS ON THE DATABASE.
FPAL releases the data to registered purchasers following a supplier's acceptance of the evaluation.
The evaluation will survive for a maximum of 3 years, but may be updated by the supplier at any time if circumstances change.

More detailed information on the process and the characteristics assessed can be obtained by downloading the Capability Assessment document or visit the Forms Page to download particular elements.