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Capability Assessment Toolkit 3
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Capability Assessment Toolkit (CAT) 3 Scoring Guidance
CAT3 Scoring Guidance
This web page briefly describes the method of scoring used in CAT3. You can download a PDF of the scoring chart from the bottom of this page.
The process that the assessors use to reach the score is covered in detail, including exercises and worked examples, during CAT Practitioner and CAT Champion training. Unlike the CAT1 and CAT2 process, there is no requirement for suppliers to provide a selfscore, and the practitioner team do not produce a pre-visit draft score based on the preliminary documentation put forward by the supplier.
The CAT Practitioner Team score the supplier during the consensus day, based on the evidence that they have collected during their visit.
Scoring Method
The CAT3 scoring method is the same for every indicator. For each indicator:
- The assessors review their findings and agree the strengths and areas for improvement.
- Consensus scores are then agreed for each of the four factors in turn (substance, clarity, quality, value added), using the scale as shown in the scoring chart. Note that: -
- Substance has no impact on the score if the supplier’s approaches address the major part of an indicator. For those indicators which are the same, or similar, to the indicators used in CATs 1 and 2, this factor will usually have little or no impact, especially for suppliers who have been through previous rounds of CAT. It is likely to have more effect on the new indicators, which may highlight areas of management and organisation that have not had significant attention in the organisation to date. Should this be the case, substance weights the score downwards if the supplier is not fully addressing the scope of the indicator.
- The factors clarity, quality, and value added are each made up of a number of elements. Brief descriptions of these elements are contained in the scoring section of the glossary. Each element is scored on a scale of 0 to 4, and these element scores are then averaged to give a factor score in the range 0 to 4. Scores are rounded to one decimal place.
- The overall score for each indicator is obtained by summing the factor scores and applying the substance weighting. This gives an overall range for each indicator of 0 to 12.
- The indicator score is then sense checked against the scale from Early Days/Limited to External Differentiator. This will normally be a quick test to ensure that the view the team has formed of the supplier’s approach to this indicator is coherent. In some instances, this check may show up imbalances between the conclusions that the team has reached, as expressed in the strengths and areas for improvement, and the score. If this happens, the team will revisit their findings to check that they describe fully the conclusions the team have come to, and are congruent with the score.
- The supplier’s total score is obtained by summing each of the indicator scores, giving a nominal minimum score of 0 and a theoretical maximum of 288. There is therefore no direct correlation between CAT2 scores and CAT3 scores. A strong CAT2 score would probably sit at around the mid point of the CAT3 score line, but they are sufficiently different that a direct comparison is meaningless.
