EMS_Evaluation_Factors.docx

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES Public Health Service

Evaluation Factors

Web-Based Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Training

Quotes that fail to follow the proposal submission requirements may be determined unacceptable and may be rejected from further consideration.

The government reserves the right to make award without discussions. Therefore, the offeror’s initial proposal should contain the offeror’s best terms from a price and technical standpoint. The Government reserves the right to conduct discussions if the Contracting Officer later determines them to be necessary.

All proposals shall consist of sections addressing the following:

A. Technical Capability B. Key Personnel C. Relevant Past Performance D. Price

A. Technical Capability Offerors will describe their approach for providing the services and accomplishing the deliverables identified in the Statement of Work (SOW). The narrative must define the approach, plan and methods to be used for the successful preparation, management and execution.

The technical approach indicates the offeror’s quality and capability of the work to be performed. Information shall be precise, factual, detailed, and complete. Offerors should not assume that the evaluation team is aware of company abilities, capabilities, plans, facilities, organization, or any other pertinent fact that is important to accomplishment of work.

This submission shall be limited to 15 pages (excluding cover page) B. Key Personnel Offeror will identify personnel responsible for key roles in the planning and execution of the web-based training. Resumes must be submitted for all key personnel, should highlight the qualifications necessary to perform the tasks identified in the SOW and include the following information:

1. Name, title, tenure and years of experience.

2. Educational degrees and professional certifications.

3. Accomplishments demonstrating SOW capabilities.

4. Any work history that corresponds with Past Performance references.

Key personnel narrative is limited to two (2) pages each; resumes are limited to three (3) pages each.

C. Relevant Past Performance

Offeror will be evaluated on performance under existing and prior contracts. Offeror should note the difference between past performance and past experience. Past performance relates to quality and how well a Contractor performed, while past experience is about the type and amount of work previously performed by a Contractor.

The Federal Government uses the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) to document contractor performance information that is required by Federal Regulations. Past performance information entered into CPARS is available to federal agencies through a separate system called the Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) for source selection purposes. The Contracting Officer will assess the offeror’s PPIRS records as part of the evaluation of this sub-factor.

The Government may supplement the information the offeror provides with performance information it may obtain from any source including its own experience with the offeror.

The Offeror’s relevant past performance information -- The Offeror will be evaluated to assess the demonstrated quality of performance on similar work, to include the ability to control the quality and cost of work, timeliness of performance, and effectiveness at accomplishing the goals of previous work. The Offeror is required to provide the evidence and corporate resume of two (2) contracts performed during the past three to five years or currently in process for the relevant services to what is being solicited under this solicitation. Relevant contracts are those contracts that are of similar scope, magnitude, nature, and work. A representative of IHS may contact the offeror’s previous customer(s) for a phone interview to help rate the offeror’s performance.

The submission shall include the following information for each contract:

1. Points of contact (Contracting Officer, COR and any other pertinent officials that can verify performance) - name, agency/company, address, phone number and email address

2. Contract title & number (and task order number(s) when applicable)

3. Relevancy to the SOW for the subject solicitation in terms of project description and magnitude of the work performed. The relevancy information must be delineated to the level that allows the evaluating officials to make a proper relevancy determination.

4. Total original, present and/or final contract dollar value

5. Explanation of problems, delays, cost overruns and corrective actions taken

6. Contract holder status (prime or sub-contractor)

This submission shall be limited to four (4) pages D. Price The equation below will be used to arrive at the offerors’ total evaluation price:

(1) Total Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) for Base period +

(2) Total Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) for Option Period I +

(3) Total Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) for Option Period II +

(4) Total Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) for Option Period III = Total evaluation price All offerors must use the following pricing structure in their proposals:

BASE PERIOD

Total

OPTION PERIOD I

Total

OPTION PERIOD II

Total

OPTION PERIOD III

Total image1.png