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SECTION M – EVALUATIONS FOR AWARD

WBR 1452.225-82 NOTICE OF WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION MAY 2005

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AGREEMENT

EVALUATIONS -- BUREAU OF RECLAMATION

In accordance with the Agreement on Government Procurement, as amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (Pub. L. 103-465), and other trade agreements, FAR Subpart 25.4, World Trade Organization Government Procurement Agreement, applies to Bureau of Reclamation acquisitions. In order to apply trade agreements unique to Reclamation, the contracting officer will (irrespective of any other provision or clause of this solicitation) evaluate acquisitions at or above the dollar thresholds listed in FAR 25.402(b) without regard to the restrictions of the Buy American Act.

EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS

The Government intends to evaluate proposals in accordance with the criteria detailed in Section L, and considering the following:

Non-Price (Technical Factors):

Factor 1: Technical Approach Factor 1A: Coordinated Construction Schedule Factor 1B: Narrative of Construction Sequence

Factor 2: Past Performance Factor 2A: Past Performance Data Factor 2B: Past Performance Narrative

This requirement has only one price factor:

Factor 3: Price.

Non-price (technical) Factors are significantly more important than Price.

Factor 1A is equal to 1B.

Factor 2A is equal to 2B.

Factor 1 (including subfactors) is equal to Factor 2 (including subfactors) Non-price Factors 1 and 2, when combined, are significantly more important than Price.

Based upon the results of the integrated assessment of the technical and cost/price proposals, the Government may make an award to other than the lowest-priced offeror or the offeror with the highest technical score if the source selection official determines that to do so would result in the best value to the Government.

Technical Factors: Proposals shall be prepared in accordance with the technical proposal preparation instructions. Price proposals will be evaluated after evaluations of the technical

Attachment 2 Amendment 0006 proposals. Each price proposal shall be evaluated to determine its reasonableness for the effort proposed and to determine the demonstrated understanding of the level of effort needed to successfully perform the services. Results of the price proposal evaluation, along with the results of the technical proposal evaluation will be the basis for the award decisions. The following factors will be used in the technical evaluation process:

Factor 1A – Construction Schedule:

The Government will evaluate the Construction Schedule (“schedule”) in conjunction with information provided in Factor 1B - Narrative of Construction (“narrative”).

Specifically, the evaluation will be based on:

1. Whether or not the overall schedule is reasonable and demonstrates the offeror’s thorough understanding of all aspects of the project.

2. Comprehensiveness and clarity of the schedule.

3. The extent the schedule provides confidence the offeror can execute the project within the timeframes proposed in the schedule with minimized risk to the Government.

a. The level of confidence will largely be based on how well the schedule is supported with detail provided in the narrative. Examples of supporting information include, but is not limited to:

i. Explanations of schedule sequencing and schedule activity scope.

ii. Supporting technical information to substantiate schedule durations, such as production rates and resource information.

iii. Explanation of how work that will require multiple concurrent tasks will be orchestrated.

4. Compliance with the requirements contained in the specifications; Section F

(Commencement, Prosecution, and Completion of Work) and Section H(Special Contract Requirements).

5. Adherence to the format requirements stated in Section L and that the schedule is organized in a manner that is easy to understand and follow.

Schedules that are not compliant with the requirements contained within the specifications, lacking detail, lacking clarity or are not supported by technical information in the narrative will be perceived as a higher risk to the Government and evaluated accordingly.

Factor 1B - Narrative of Construction Sequence:

The Government’s evaluation will be based on:

1. Extent the offeror’s narrative provides the required information listed in

Section L, Factor 2.

2. Extent the offeror’s narrative demonstrates a thorough understanding of the project requirements in the solicitation and specifications.

3. Extent the offeror has demonstrated they have developed a reasonable, well supported, plan for execution of the work that would be interpreted as reducing risk to the government.

4. Extent the offeror’s narrative supports and provides realism to the schedule through clear explanation of work activities, listed production rates, and listed resources given the project specific site conditions, restrictions and requirements.

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5. The perceived effectiveness of the proposed traffic control measures to increase public safety. Narrative’s that do not correlate and/or support the realism of the Construction Schedule will be perceived as a higher risk to the Government and evaluated accordingly.

Factor 2A: Past Performance Data:

The government will evaluate the Offeror’s past performance. The Government will evaluate information provided and the received Past Performance Questionnaire (PPQ) from references. In addition, the Government will evaluate:

1) Information provided by the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS).

2) The past performance for work on projects of similar scope, complexity, and magnitude to the work required under this solicitation. The past performance involving work accomplished under critical completion timeframes and outages.

3) The Government will view an Offeror or subcontractor without a record of relevant past performance for whom past performance is not available with a neutral rating.

Factor 2B: Past Performance Narrative:

The Government will evaluate the Offeror’s provided past performance and subcontractor past performance (when Letter(s) of Commitment are provided) based on:

1) How close the submitted reference project relates to the work contained in this solicitation.

2) Information provided by reference(s).

3) Information provided and the received Past Performance Questionnaire (PPQ)

4) The information provided by the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System

(CPARS)

The Government will view an offeror without a record of relevant past performance for whom past performance is not available with a neutral rating. The Government will use its discretion to determine the sources of past performance information used in the evaluation, and the information may be obtained from references provided by the offeror, the agency’s knowledge of contractor performance, other Government agencies or commercial entities, or past performance databases.

Factor 3: Price:

The Government will evaluate each offeror’s proposed prices for fair and reasonableness. Price reasonableness will be determined in accordance with FAR 15.404-1, Proposal analysis techniques.

The price proposals will be evaluated against the Government Price Estimate, as well as other price proposals received. The analysis of the variance between the Government's estimate and each offer and variance among the offerors will indicate whether further review is necessary in order to determine if the price is fair and reasonable. The Government will only make an award if it can determine the offeror’s price to be fair and reasonable. All proposed prices will be reviewed for price reasonableness and any instances of unbalanced pricing. for tradeoff purposes, the price component to be used in any tradeoff decisions will be the "grand total" from attachment B.1, Attachment 2 Amendment 0006 srall Cross-Out which is the sum of contract line item numbers (CLINs) 1 -- 66.

The relative importance of the factors is as follows:

Non-price Factors 1 and 2 when combined are significantly important than Factor 3, price.

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