How do the BOBI judges make their decisions?

A judging panel of three or four highly experienced professionals is responsible for judging each category. Each judge independently rates the 3 short-listed entries against a set of objective criteria and notes their scores and comments.

The judges then share their individual assessments and confer until a consensus decision is reached. During this process of confering they may contact the finalists by email, to request clarification of any points relating to the entry submission, or further supporting information (if available).

Click here to see an example of the assessment sheets used by the judges.

(These same criteria are used by the Steering Committee in the initial screening process to select the finalists).

All the judges and steering committee members are bound by a confidentiality undertaking not disclose or discuss the content of the entries outside of the judging/screening process. They are also carefully selected to avoid them viewing any entry where there may be a conflict of interest (e.g. companies that compete in the same disease area). In addition, no-one is permitted to be involved in the screening or judging of a category in which someone from their own company is an entrant, or which their own company is sponsoring.

Entrants are given the opportunity (on the entry form) to list organisations whose personnel they do not wish to view their entries.