Q1. If I’m unable to personally present the product to the judges, what can I do?
As per the rules of NBQSA:
– A participating product needs to be presented to a panel of Judges at a scheduled time period and at a specified venue by an individual or group of people physically in front of the judges.
– In addition to the person/persons who are physically present in front of the judges, any one is not prohibited from adding value to the presentation either physically been in the judging room or remotely connecting via telephone/video conferencing/Skype/viber/whatsapp/.. etc. The participant has the freedom to include these value additions as they feel appropriate.
– Value addition to the presentation could be done by development team members, own organisations’ leaders, customers etc.
– The presentation of the product should cover explanations and demonstration of the product for the presentation to be considered complete.
– NBQSA strictly does not require the participating ICT product to be handed over to the organisers, judges or any 3rd party for the purpose of evaluations.
– The judging is carried out based on the presentation and product performance related facts obtained through the customer/market references
– The legal ownership of the product is presumed to be with the participant(s) OR the participant(s) have obtained the authorization explicitly from the legal owner to submit the product to NBQSA.
– The Chief Judges’ decision is the Final decision on the Awards.
– The participants are required to handover the Feedback form immediately after the Judging activity of the participating product is completed.
– Any complain/comment/subjections could be handed over to the organisers up to 21days prior to the scheduled date of the Awards Ceremony for each year. The organisers reserve the rights to address such complains/comments/suggestions as and when they decide appropriate to do so.
Q2: Can we submit the same product to multiple categories?
Q3. How to send feedback to NBQSA
Only participants are allowed to send their feedback.
At the end of any Commercial or Special Category Judging, Feedback forms are handed over/download link provided to the participant, to be handed over to the organizer within the indicated period of time.
Feedback regarding any Student Category Judging needs to be forwarded to the organisers in-writing through the coordinator of the respective Tertiary Educational Institute.
All the feedback must be handed over to the organisers withing 2 working days of the participant facing the judging, indicating the Category, Name of the Project/Product, contact details of the participant and Date & time of Judging.
Q4. How to apply for duplicate copy of a trophy/certificate
Policy on Duplication of NBQSA Awards
Duplication of National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) Trophies could be done subject to the following conditions:
a) The application for the NBQSA should have been made under all the names of the respective legal owners on or before the deadline for submitting applications for the specific year.
b) All parties of should have been party to the evaluation presentation.
c) A written request for the duplicate trophy should be made by the requesting party within one month of the awards ceremony to the BCSSL Secretariat.
d) The Written request should be made along with the written consent from all the other legal owners / applicants to the NBQSA of the product.
e) The written request should be made along with the Processing fee. The cheque should be made to “BCS the Chartered Institute for IT – Sri Lanka Section”.
Prerequisites to issue the duplicate trophies
• Replicas will only be issued, only if all the involving parties agree to do so in writing.
• Replicas requested are only accommodated for the Commercial Category winners.
• EXACT copy of the trophy will be issued and maximum of 3 copies can requested subject to the number of applicants in the original application to NBQSA.
• Parties involved should have been declared before the preliminary judging process beings.
• Time to deliver the replicas will depend on the supplier of the trophies and would be informed to the applicants within 3 working days of the application.
• Fee of LKR 300,000 will be charged as the processing fee.
