B08_Attachment_2_0_Award_Basis_Factors.docx

SOLICITATION NO: 140L63-23-Q-0029

BASIS FOR CONTRACT AWARD: Awards will be made to offerors whose proposals, responsive and conforming to the RFQ, are determined to be most advantageous to the Government in terms of Technical, Price and other factors considered.

This is a competitive best value source selection in which competing offerors' past performance history and technical rating will be evaluated on a basis significantly more important than cost or price considerations. By submission of its offer, the offeror accedes to all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and technical requirements, in addition to those identified as evaluation factors or subfactors. All technically acceptable offers shall be treated equally except for their prices and performance records. Failure to meet a requirement may result in an offer being determined technically unacceptable. Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the solicitation terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale. The evaluation process shall proceed as follows:

A. Technical Ratings.

1. Technical ratings shall focus on strengths, uncertainties, and deficiencies in the proposal. Technical shall be rated at the subfactor level, and an overall technical factor rating is not assigned. Technical subfactors shall be rated as follows:

2. If a proposal demonstrates a material failure to meet a Government requirement, this is a deficiency in the proposal resulting in an Unacceptable rating; the proposal is unawardable. Also note that proposal evaluations include an integrated proposal risk rating.

B. Past Performance Ratings. Based upon relevance and performance, the Government will assign a performance confidence assessment rating as follows:

C. Pricing Evaluation. A best value determination will consider the sum of the total price for the basic requirement and all optional requirements. The Government may determine that an offer is unacceptable if optional prices are significantly unbalanced. Evaluation of optional prices shall not obligate the Government to fund and award optional requirements. Award will be made in the best interests of the Government on the basic requirement and any combination of optional requirements for which funds are determined to be available at the time of the award or within 90 days of award.

Basis for Award A. The Government intends to make one award based on evaluation of proposals submitted in response to this solicitation. Award will be made to the responsible contractor whose proposal conforms to all solicitation requirements and provides the best value to the Government based on the results of the evaluation. This may result in award to a higher rated, higher priced proposal where the decision is consistent with evaluation factors and the Contracting Officer reasonably determines that the technical superiority and/or overall approach and/or superior past performance of the higher priced proposal outweighs the price difference.

B. Relative Importance of Evaluation Factors.

Proposals will be evaluated on the following factors: technical approach, past performance and price. All subfactors within the technical approach factor are of equal importance. Technical approach is more important than past performance. When combined, technical approach and past performance are approximately equal in importance to price in reaching the award decision.

Attachment 2.0 - Award Basis Factors