Attachment II - Instructions to Offerors and Evaluation Criteria.pdf

273FCC21R0005

Attachment II

Instructions to Offerors and Evaluation Criteria (Addendum to FAR 52.212-1 and FAR 52.212-2)

Instructions to Offerors

1. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFERORS

1.1. This is a Full and Open Best Value Tradeoff competitive procurement.

This competitive procurement shall result in the award of a firm fixed price /labor hour single award contract. No proposal costs shall be reimbursed. The Government intends to hold discussions but reserves the right to award on initial proposals, without discussion, if considered to be in the best interest of the Government. All offerors should submit their best business, technical approach, data usage rights, past performance, and price proposal(s) in their initial submission. The electronic version of the RFP is the official version for this acquisition. No hard copy or facsimile copies of the Request for Proposal, or amendments, will be provided.

Under a Statement of Objectives (SOO), the Government describes its requirement in terms of desired objectives. Offerors should propose solutions that they believe will best meet or exceed the objectives.

In essence, the Government states the problem it wants solved, and industry has the freedom to propose what they consider the best solution. Under a SOO, the Government is changing the very nature of what it is acquiring from traditional compliance with a Government-developed Statement of Work (SOW) to performance results.

Offerors should propose a Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) structure with their Cost/Price proposal that includes the Support and Special Projects Optional Activity, which will be structured as a labor hour CLIN with a ceiling amount. Offerors should propose a ceiling amount per year, which will be included in the government’s calculation of the Offeror’s total evaluated price to use for the tradeoff. Should the Offeror be willing to provide different Data Usage Rights at different prices, the Offeror may submit up to two (2) alternate Data Usage Rights Proposals and associated alternate Price Proposals. The alternate Volume III – Data Usage Rights and Volume V – Price Proposals must be clearly identified as such, and it must be clear which Volume III – Data Usage Rights proposal is associated with which Volume V – Price proposal. An alternate Volume V – Price proposal may only be submitted if the Offeror submits an associated alternate Volume III – Data Usage Rights proposal (i.e. if an Offeror submits only one (1) Volume III – Data Usage Rights proposal, it may only submit one (1) Volume V– Price proposal). Only one proposal each may be submitted for Volumes I, II and IV.

The Government intends to award a single contract. The period of performance will consist of a base period of one year, followed by four option years. All proposals shall include the Offeror and any subcontractor Name(s), DUNS, CAGE Code, and a brief description of the services to be performed by any subcontractors.

2. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

2.1. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION - Send proposals via email to Contract Specialist at:

Teresa.Dailey@fcc.gov and EAC-Proposals@fcc.gov. Include “RFP Number 273FCC21R0005, Broadband Location Serviceable Fabric Database - Proposal” in the subject line of the e-mail.

Acknowledge the solicitation by completing blocks 30a and 30c and signing block 30b of the SF1449.

All proposals and correspondence shall be submitted no later than the proposal due date stated in block 8 of the SF1449. Proposal is due no later 4PM EST than July 1, 2021.

mailto:Teresa.Dailey@fcc.gov

2.2. QUESTIONS – Submit any questions or comments via email to Contract Specialist at:

Teresa.Dailey@fcc.gov and EAC-Proposals@fcc.gov. Include “RFP Number 273FCC21R0005, Broadband Location Serviceable Fabric Database - QUESTIONS” in the subject line of the e-mail.

Please identify the page and section of the solicitation to which your question refers. Questions are to be submitted no later than 10:00 AM ET, June 14, 2021.

2.3. SOLICITATION/CONTRACT (SF1449) AND AMENDMENTS (SF30) - Complete blocks 12, 17a, 17b, 30a, 30b, and 30c of the Request for Proposal (RFP) SF 1449. In doing so, the Contractor accedes to the contract terms and conditions as written in the RFP. Submit page 1 of the SF1449 with the signature of a corporate officer authorized to negotiate for the company in blocks 30a, 30b, and 30c and acknowledgement of any and all amendments, (SF 30) with signature in block 15B. The Government may reject any proposal which fails to do so.

2.4. FORMAT AND CONTENT

2.4.1 File Format

The electronic technical proposal shall be submitted in MS Word or Portable Document Format (PDF), filename extension: “.pdf” and suitable for viewing in Adobe Reader. The price proposal shall be submitted in MS Word or MS Excel format. Each volume shall be appropriately numbered and clearly identified with the date and RFP number. A Standard, 12-point font size applies to all volumes. Use Times New Roman 12-point font, single-spaced type with one-inch margins.

Offerors shall bookmark and label each electronic PDF to afford easy identification from the proposal table of contents.

2.4.2 Number of Files

The proposal contents shall be presented as five to nine files: Volume 1 – Business, Volume II – Technical Approach, Volume III– Data Usage Rights, Volume IV – Past Performance, and Volume V – Price, with a possible Volume III– Data Usage Rights, Alternate I and Alternate II and corresponding Volume V – Price, Alternate I and Alternate II, should the offeror choose to submit up to 2 alternate Volume III– Data Usage Rights and Volume V – Price proposals.

Electronic submission of proposals is the ONLY method of acceptance.

3. GENERAL PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

3.1 BINDING

Each volume (Volume 1 – Business, Volume II – Technical Approach, Volume III – Data Usage Rights, Volume IV – Past Performance, and Volume V – Price) (including alternate Data Usage Rights and Price proposals as described above) shall be submitted as a separate file via e-mail to the POC listed and shall be in file format in 2.4.1. The printed number of pages (single sided) should not exceed the size limitations detailed elsewhere in this document. Any text changes (as a result of negotiations or proposal revisions) should be shown with a different color and have changed information clearly marked by a vertical line in the right margin of the page. Revised pages shall be dated.

Proposals that lack sufficient information or are non-compliant as to preclude further meaningful evaluation or that, on account of proposal construction, are grossly technically deficient may be determined unacceptable. With the concurrence of the Contracting Officer, such proposals need not be given further consideration. The Contracting Officer will promptly notify those Offerors whose proposals were found unacceptable on these grounds.

mailto:Teresa.Dailey@fcc.gov

4. VOLUME I - BUSINESS [No page limit]

a. Cover Letter or First Page - Restrict the information listed below to the cover page or first page of the submitted proposal. The company logo can be included in the header of each page as necessary, if applicable.

• Company name

• Company logo or other identify graphic

• Company mailing address

• CAGE code and DUNS number

• Name and contact information for company official with authority to obligate the vendor.

• Solicitation Number

• Must state the validity of the proposal from the time of the due date, no less than 90 days.

b. Representations and Certifications, FAR 52.212-3 - Offerors shall submit one completed copy of all representations and certifications. If the Offeror has completed the Online Representations and Certifications at the System for Award Management (SAM) at https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM, it should submit an electronic printout or screenshot of the Representations and Certifications via email as part of its proposal.

c. Neutrality Offerors must submit a certificate signed by a Chief Executive Officer or President that explicitly certifies the offeror meets each requirement of the Commission’s neutrality requirements in Commission rule 52.12, 47 C.F.R. §52.12.

d. Compliance Matrix

Each Offeror shall provide a compliance matrix to present how RFP requirements are addressed throughout the proposal. Each row in the matrix links each proposal section with one or more RFP requirements. This document shall demonstrate how and where the Offeror covers each of the Topics listed in the table below (and further described in the bullet points in paragraph 5.1 Factor 1: Technical Approach) and each SOO objective/requirement in its proposal. To the extent the Offeror submits Alternate Data Usage Rights and/or Price Proposals, the compliance matrix shall also include references to those alternate proposals and the RFP requirements addressed therein.

e. Executive Summary

Each Offeror shall provide a summary of its Technical, Data Rights, and Past Performance Proposals that highlights the Offeror’s understanding and approach to the technical requirements and the capabilities of its proposed team.

NOTE: This summary must not contain any reference to cost/price.

Volume # Section Topics I Business Cover Letter or First Page

Representations and Certifications, FAR 52.212-3

Neutrality

Compliance Matrix

Executive Summary

II Technical Approach Performance Work Statement (PWS)

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

Creating a Dataset of all Structures

• Data Sources

• Analyzing Data

• Timeframe for Refreshing Data and Creating the Dataset

• Validate/Feedback on Dataset Accuracy

• Nationwide Location DB - GIS Dataset

Experience

• Estimates for Completeness of Initial Dataset

• Description of Methods to Measure Errors

• Accuracy of Data Over Time

• Processes to Reduce Error Types

• Timeliness of Delivery of Initial Dataset III Data Usage Rights Proposed Data Deliverables and Rights Therein IV Past Performance Recent/Relevant Experience V Price

5. VOLUME II – TECHNICAL APPROACH

The Technical Approach Proposal is limited to a total of 30 single-sided pages. Pages shall be numbered consecutively throughout the Technical Approach Proposal. Sections shall be numbered consecutively throughout the Technical Approach Proposal, as listed below. Pages exceeding the limit will be removed and not forwarded for evaluation. Offerors are encouraged to use graphics to best demonstrate their capabilities and solutions. The Table of Contents, Table Summary, Compliance Matrix, Title Page, Performance Work Statement (PWS), and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP) are NOT counted as part of the 30-page limit.

Should the Government request revised proposals after initial proposal submission, highlight the changes in the proposal with tracked changes (line-in/line-out). Provide a tracked changes proposal and a clean copy of the proposal. The 30-page limit described above applies to the clean copy of the proposal.

Table of Contents

Each Offeror shall provide a Table of Contents in the Technical Approach proposal to identify the location of the key subject areas of the proposal and the page number where the Section is located.

Table Summary

Each Offeror shall provide a Table Summary in the Technical Approach proposal that identifies the pages/sections of the proposal that address the evaluation criteria.

Factor 1: Technical Approach

The Offeror shall describe its solution and the technical approach for achieving the Statement of Objectives in paragraph C.

Performance Work Statement (PWS): The Offeror shall include a PWS with its proposal that addresses the Statement of Objectives in Attachment 1. The Offeror shall specify, in a PWS format, exactly what the Offeror will do for the Government. The PWS shall provide a list of specific project activities (required and optional), including each activity identified in SOO, paragraph 3.1, and a proposed delivery schedule. The Offeror must be specific about how the Government will be involved in the development and updates of the dataset. While the PWS must be specific about the technical approach and data rights, the PWS should also clearly address the Offeror’s plan for implementing the Fabric accomplishing the objectives of the contract, and measuring results. The PWS also must address the Contract Requirements (SOO, paragraph 3.2) and optional license terms (SOO, para 3.3).

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP): The Offeror shall include a QASP with its proposal that describes how the Offeror intends to manage and provide the proper quality while meeting the Broadband Serviceable Fabric objectives described in the SOO and the requirements described in the Offeror’s PWS.

The proposal shall demonstrate how implementation of the proposed solutions will deliver timely, standard, stable, reliable, secure, flexible, responsive, compliant, and cost-effective services to meet the needs of FCC and its stakeholders.

The Offeror shall describe the approach it will use and, if relevant, has used, to create a dataset of all structures in the U.S. and the dataset of Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs). The description shall include:

• Data Sources: Description of the underlying sources of data, including any primary and secondary data sources, and whether the sources are developed by the contractor or licensed from a third party, along with information about how often each underlying source is updated or refreshed. The Offeror may provide information about ingesting data from broadband service providers, if appropriate.

• Analyzing Data: Description of how data will be, or has been, analyzed or derived from the underlying data sources to determine the following:

o The location of structures o Whether structures are BSLs o Additional required data (unit counts, address(es), residential/business classification) o Description of the extent to which FCC staff can influence or update the contractor’s approach to determining the location of structures, designation of BSLs, or additional data to meet the FCC’s particular needs

• Timeframe for Refreshing Data and Creating Datasets: Information about the timeframe for refreshing data, including the shortest time period to refresh the data, and the ability to create monthly, quarterly, or bi-annual datasets

• Validate/Feedback on Dataset Accuracy: Description of how the Offeror will validate and incorporate feedback on the accuracy of the datasets, including challenge data submitted via the

FCC

• Nationwide Location DB – GIS Dataset Experience: Description of the Offeror’s expertise in working with GIS datasets as required by the Broadband DATA Act, including a description of any prior work creating or maintaining a nationwide location dataset

• Estimates for Completeness of the Initial Dataset: Estimates of the completeness of the initial dataset along with the prevalence of different types of errors in the initial dataset, including the over- or under-inclusion of structures (Type I and Type II errors), selection of incorrect buildings as being BSLs, incorrect addresses, incorrect unit counts, misclassification of buildings as being residential or business, or any other types of errors

• Description of Methods to Measure Errors: Description of the methods the Offeror will use, or has already used, to measure such errors, including additional data sources used as a check.

To the extent the Offeror uses sampling to measure accuracy, they should describe their sampling methodology.

• Accuracy of Data Over Time: Estimates for how the contractor expects the accuracy of the data to change and/or improve over time

• Processes to Reduce Error Types: Processes the Offeror has in place or will create to reduce each type of error

• Timeliness of Delivery of Initial Dataset: Estimate of the time it will take to deliver the initial Fabric dataset to the Government. Offerors should include an estimate for the number of total structures, BSLs, and addresses in its initial Fabric dataset.

6. VOLUME III – DATA USAGE RIGHTS

The Data Usage Right Proposal(s) are limited to a total of 5 single-sided pages each. Pages and Sections shall be numbered consecutively throughout. For each Data Usage Rights proposal, pages exceeding the limit will be removed and not forwarded for evaluation. Offerors can use graphics to demonstrate their proposed solutions. The Table of Contents, Table Summary, Title Page, and Existing License Agreements (as defined below) are NOT counted as part of the 5-page limit.

Should the Government request revised proposals after initial proposal submission, Offerors should highlight the changes in the proposal with tracked changes (line-in/line-out), and provide both a tracked changes proposal(s) and a clean copy of the proposal(s). The 5-page limit described above applies to the clean copy(copies) of the proposal(s).

Table of Contents

Each Offeror shall provide a Table of Contents in each Data Usage Rights proposal to identify the location of key subject areas of the proposal and the page number where the Section is located.

Table Summary

Each Offeror shall provide a Table Summary in each Data Usage Rights proposal that identifies the pages/sections of the proposal that address the evaluation criteria.

Factor 2: Data Usage Rights

The Offeror shall describe in detail the data deliverables it will provide to the Government and the Data Usage Rights it proposes to provide the Government in those deliverables. The Government’s minimum and two levels of preferred Data Usage Rights are outlined in the Statement of Objectives Data Usage Rights section. To be technically acceptable, the Offeror must propose to provide at least the minimum Data Usage Rights described in paragraph 3.3.1 of the SOO.

To the extent the Offeror proposes to provide any data that is subject to existing third-party license agreement(s), the Offeror shall include a copy of the applicable license agreement(s) (“Existing License Agreements”) in its proposal.

7. VOLUME IV - PAST PERFORMANCE

The Past Performance section is limited to a total of 10 single-sided pages. Pages shall be numbered consecutively throughout the Past Performance section. Pages exceeding the limit will be removed and not forwarded for evaluation. The Title Page and Past Performance Questionnaires are NOT counted as part of the 10-page limit.

Should the Government request revised proposals after initial proposal submission, the Offeror shall highlight the changes in the proposal with tracked changes. Provide a tracked changes proposal and a clean copy of the proposal. The 10-page limit applies to the clean copy of the proposal.

Factor 3: Past Performance

Each Offeror shall demonstrate that it has performed well on recent contracts or task orders that are predictive of success on the current effort. Each Offeror shall identify three (3) contracts/task orders with the Federal Government (preferred), or with State, local, commercial, or non-profit customers that demonstrate recent and relevant positive past performance. The Offeror shall provide a list with three (3) recent and relevant references. “Recent” is defined as active or completed efforts performed within the past three (3) years from the closing date of this solicitation (this can include work that began prior to this three-year period but was completed within the three-year period). “Relevant” is defined as similar in terms of size, scope, and complexity in comparison to the requirements in the SOO. The recent and relevant past performance of subcontractors for this contract will be considered; however, only one of the three past performance references can be for a subcontractor.

The Offeror shall include:

(1) The contract number; (2) A description of the work performed; (3) The name, current phone number, and current e-mail address of the individual who can speak to customer satisfaction, timeliness of the work, and quality; (4) Role on the project (Prime/partner or subcontractor); (5) The total dollar value of the work; (6) Explanation of the relevance of the work in creating nation- or state-level location or building-level datasets, and prior experience in creating broadband-availability datasets; and (7) Self-assessment as to how the experience gained will enhance Offeror’s ability to deliver the service/products requested.

The Government reserves the right to contact each reference provided. Each Offeror shall notify references of the possibility that the FCC will call seeking past performance information on the identified projects or other recent, relevant projects on which the Offeror has performed. The Government may also consider recent, relevant information obtained through other Government past performance sources, including PPIRS or other agency surveys. Offerors without recent and relevant past performance (or that are unable to provide three references in this regard) shall so state. The Offeror shall provide a copy of the Past Performance Questionnaire to its references supplied in the past performance section of the proposal. The Offeror is responsible for ensuring the Past Performance Evaluation Survey is received prior to the closing date and time of the RFP.

Past Performance Questionnaire (Attachment i)

The Offeror shall provide the Past Performance Questionnaires to the three references outlined by the Offeror in the Offeror’s Past Performance Reference Documents. The Offeror shall request that the reference complete and provide the Past Performance Questionnaire directly to the FCC Contracting Officer (by email to Teresa.Dailey@fcc.gov) on or before the proposal due date.

7. VOLUME V – PRICE [No page limit]

Price Proposal Content and Formatting Instructions

The price proposal is to be submitted as a Firm Fixed Price / Labor Hour proposal. The Offeror shall include all information relating to the proposed prices, including and all required supporting documentation, in Volume V: Price. Under no circumstances shall price information and documentation be included in any other volume. The Offeror price proposal shall include.

1) Price Executive Summary:

The Offeror shall provide a summary of Volume V: Price, including an overview of the pricing approach and strategy.

2) Price Proposal:

Offeror shall utilize the attached pricing sheet (Attachment 2) to provide your pricing proposal prepared for the SOO contained herein. The Offeror shall present all labor categories, applicable rates, and number of hours organized by subtask or activity within the SOO, respectively, as well as any other prices required to satisfy requirements in the SOO.

3) Labor Rates:

The Offeror shall provide labor categories with per hour labor rates and annotate on the attached Pricing Sheet.

Price Proposal(s) shall be submitted with sufficient detail to support the proposed prices and to permit the Government to determine that proposed prices are fair and reasonable. Note that Price Proposal does not have a page limit.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

BASIS FOR AWARD

Award will be made on a best value tradeoff basis. Accordingly, the Government will award the contract to the responsible and technically acceptable Offeror whose proposal, conforming to the solicitation, represents the best value to the Government in accordance with the evaluation factors and subfactors stated in this solicitation. The proposal that offers the best value is the proposal that, in the Government’s estimation, provides the greatest overall benefit to the Government in response to the requirement. In determining which proposal offers the best value, the Government may make tradeoffs between prices and non-price proposal attributes (including past performance).

In conducting any tradeoff to determine which proposal provides the greatest overall benefit to the Government, the Government will consider proposal and Offeror attributes, judging the strengths and weaknesses associated with each proposal under the evaluation factors and subfactors identified in the solicitation. Among other things, these strengths and weaknesses may include: past performance or other attributes of the Offeror’s proposal that makes more or less likely the risk of unsuccessful or inefficient performance of the contract, including increased cost, defective or degraded performance, extended or disrupted schedule, or the risk of required additional Government oversight; and meritorious aspects of the Offeror’s proposal that exceed the requirements or approach the requirements in a way beneficial to the Government.

Best value will be determined by comparing the value of the differences in the proposal(s) and Offerors as judged by the non-price evaluation factors with differences in their price to the Government. In making this determination, the Government is more concerned with obtaining superior past performance and technical/management capabilities than with making a source selection at the lowest price. However, the Government reserves the right to place the order with an Offeror(s) whose proposal does not offer the most superior non-price attributes or whose proposal offers other than the lowest price, where doing so achieves the greatest overall benefit for the Government. As the non-price factors among the proposals near equality, price will become more important to the Government.

To the extent any Offeror(s) submit(s) alternate Data Usage Rights and Price Proposals, the Government will fully evaluate each alternate proposal in accordance with the evaluation criteria below. For the purposes of conducting its tradeoff analysis, the Government will fully consider each of the Offerors’ proposals, including any alternate Data Usage Rights and Price proposals, and conduct a full tradeoff.

Essentially, any Offeror submitting alternate proposals could have up to three (3) total proposals in consideration for the purposes of conducting the tradeoff (of which the Technical Approach and Past Performance portions, and evaluation/ratings thereof, would be the same).

The Government intends to hold discussions with Offerors as needed, but reserves the right to award on initial proposals, without discussion, if considered to be in the best interest of the Government.

SOURCE SELECTION FACTORS

The evaluation factors for this award are as follows:

Evaluation Factors Order of Importance

Factor 1 Technical Approach Factor 1 is slightly more important than Factor 2.

Factor 2 Data Usage Rights Factor 2 is slightly more important than Factor 3.

Factor 3 Past Performance

Factor 3 is slightly less important than Factor 2.

Factor 4 Price Factors 1-3, when combined, are significantly more important than price.

Adjectival Ratings

Proposals will be rated for Factor 1: Technical Approach; Factor 2: Data Usage Rights, and Factor 3: Past Performance under an adjectival rating scheme. The Government will not “roll up” factor adjectival ratings into an overall non-price proposal adjectival rating. To the extent an Offeror submits an Alternate Data Usage Rights proposal, that alternate proposal shall be fully and separately evaluated in accordance with the Factor 2 evaluation criteria described below, and the alternate Data Usage Rights proposal will be assigned a separate adjectival rating in accordance with the adjectival rating scheme.

Evaluation Factors:

(1) Technical Approach

(a) The FCC will consider the extent to which the Offeror’s technical approach will achieve the Broadband Location Serviceable Fabric objectives. The evaluation will assess the extent to which the solution provides an in-depth understanding of and adheres to the project’s objectives. Evidence of a high-quality technical solution includes:

1. A comprehensive performance work statement that identifies the services to be delivered to meet the requirements set forth in the Statement of Objectives.

2. A Quality Control/Quality Assurance Plan that provides a thorough overview of responsibility and plans/actions to provide quality control/quality assurance throughout the contract lifecycle.

3. A sound technical proposal that clearly demonstrates how implementation of the proposed solutions will deliver timely, standard, stable, reliable, secure, flexible, responsive, compliant, and cost-effective services to meet the needs of FCC and its stakeholders.

4. The FCC will evaluate each Offeror’s description of the approach it will use, or has used, in creating a dataset of all structures in the U.S. and of Broadband Serviceable Locations (BSLs).

The description will be evaluated based on the thoroughness and feasibility of the offer’s approach, including:

• Underlying and/or primary sources of data, including how often the underlying sources are updated or refreshed

• How data will be, or have been, analyzed or derived from the underlying data sources to determine the following:

The location of structures Whether structures are BSLs Additional required data (location counts, address(es), residential/business classification) The extent to which, and process by which, FCC staff can influence or update the

Offeror’s approach to determining the location of structures, designation of BSLs, or additional data to meet the FCC’s particular needs

• Information about the timeframe for refreshing data, including the shortest time period to refresh the data, and the ability to create monthly, quarterly, or bi-annual datasets

• How the Offeror will validate and incorporate feedback on the accuracy of the datasets, including challenge data submitted via the FCC

• The extent to which the Offeror demonstrates relevant expertise in working with GIS datasets as required by the Broadband DATA Act, including any prior work creating or maintaining a nationwide location dataset.

• The Offeror’s process to evaluate and correct errors in the dataset over time

• Proposed timeframe for delivering the initial databases to the Government, including an estimate for the number of total structures, number of BSLs, and number of addresses in the initial delivery of databases.

(2) Data Usage Rights

The FCC will evaluate the extent to which the Offeror’s proposed data usage rights meet or exceed the Government’s requirements, with preference given to data rights more closely aligned to the most-preferred rights described in the SOO.

(3) Past Performance

The past performance assessment will assess the Government’s confidence in the Offeror’s ability to successfully accomplish the requirement based on the Offeror’s demonstrated work record on recent and relevant efforts in terms of size, scope, and complexity in comparison to the requirements in the SOO, and how well the Offeror performed those relevant efforts. The recency and relevancy of the information, the source of the information, the context of the data, and general trends in the Contractor’s performance will be considered. More recent and more relevant performance usually has a greater impact in the confidence assessment than less recent and less relevant performance. The Government will perform an independent determination of relevancy of the data provided or obtained. A relevancy determination will be made for each of the three (3) contracts submitted by the Offeror. For the Offeror, information on no more than three (3) contracts should be submitted for consideration; information on additional contract will not be evaluated. If additional contracts are submitted, they will be evaluated in order of receipt of the Past Performance Questionnaires up to the required number. An Offeror without a record of relevant past performance or for whom any or recent information on past performance is not available will not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on past performance. In conducting the past performance evaluation, the FCC may use information obtained from sources other than the Offeror’s references and information contained in their proposals, including, among other sources, current information from Government-wide past performance databases and industry reporting sources. The FCC may also consider past performance information regarding predecessor companies, key personnel, or other corporate entities or subcontractors where such information is relevant to this acquisition, whether or not contained in the Offeror’s proposal.

The FCC is not required to interview points of contact identified by Offerors.

(4) Price Analysis

The Government will evaluate the information submitted in each Offeror’s price proposal in accordance with FAR 15.404-1(b). The Government will review price proposals for completeness and arithmetic accuracy. Price will be evaluated but not rated. The Government will determine whether the total evaluated price is fair and reasonable. In reaching such a determination, the Government may evaluate the reasonableness of proposed labor rates and unit prices to be paid by the Government over the course of the contract.

Options. The Government will evaluate offers for award purposes by adding the total price for the base period and all options to the total price for the basic requirement. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if the option prices are significantly unbalanced.