The phrase "assessing options" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or consideration of different choices or alternatives in a decision-making process.
Example: "Before making a final decision, we should spend some time assessing options to ensure we choose the best path forward."
Alternatives: "evaluating choices" or "considering alternatives".
"In response to current trading conditions, we have expanded our cost reduction activity and are assessing options to reduce our global employee base by approximately 300".
Seeking further information, asking questions, assessing options — those are reasonable responses if, a few weeks after a loved one's death, a doctor says you may have major depression.
In October the Department for Transport sent a shot across Siemens' bows by announcing it was "assessing options" for the contract, while reaffirming Bombardier's status as second-in-line to take over the project.
The Department for Transport has raised doubts over a controversial government procurement deal after admitting it is "assessing options" if Siemens fails to finalise the £1.4bn Thameslink trains contract.
When it came to her course though, one issue stood out above the rest: "Is it worth £9,000?" For parents and sixth-formers scrutinising university league tables this autumn, assessing options for 2015, this has become the £44,000 question – that sum being the total amount the average student will now owe on graduation.
Responding to a parliamentary question from Chris Williamson, MP for Derby North, Burns said: "I am aware of the consequences of failing to conclude the procurement and as you would expect, my department is closely monitoring progress, including assessing options were it not possible to secure financial close".
A number of different methods of assessing option and distractor performance were adopted in this study based on the methods recommended in Haladyna and Downing ([1993]).
It's impossible to rationally assess options".
George Packer and Jon Lee Anderson assess options for diplomacy in the Syrian crisis.
That is why it is sensible of President Obama to take his time to assess options.
The Department of Energy then created committees to assess options, and it chose the mixed oxide fuel fabrication option.
