Draft Evaluation Factors.docx

Proposal Instructions/Evaluation Criteria

Technical Proposal:

Technical approach:

The proposal shall include a narrative description of the Offeror’s approach to performing the work. The narrative shall address each of the tasks contained in the solicitation including significant difficulties, obstacles and risks in performing the requirement and explain how the perceived difficulties and obstacles will be overcome and the risks managed or mitigated.

Staffing Plan:

The offeror shall provide a narrative for the proposed staffing of the contract. The narrative shall describe the roles of staff and the expected contributions of the staff identified. The offeror shall include resumes (not more than two pages) for everyone identified as key personnel. Resumes will not be included in the page limitation.

Price Proposal:

The offeror shall provide a price proposal which includes a detailed breakdown of the labor, material, and other costs for this contract. The Contractor's pricing schedules for labor categories shall contain loaded hourly rates. The loaded hourly rates for each labor category shall be fully burdened to include wages, indirect costs (including local travel, fringe benefits, overhead, general and administrative, and profit.

Offerors shall complete the following price table:

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Technical Evaluation Criteria

Technical proposals shall be evaluated individually for compliance and conformance with the solicitation requirements. The offeror’s technical approach and key personnel are considered more important than price. The offeror’s proposal will be evaluated to determine technical acceptability in terms of addressing the requirements set forth in the SOW; however, the closer offers are in technical merit, price will be the determining factor. FDA will award contract to vendor that demonstrates the ability to meet the government’s requirements and offer the government the best value after trade-offs.

The offeror will demonstrates that their organization is free from conflicts of interest in performing this requirement and has practices in place to monitor, identify, address, and communicate actual and potential conflicts of interest for the organization and staff in their work on this project. All relevant disclosures have been made in the offeror’s proposal.

Price Evaluation Criteria

Price reasonableness shall be evaluated to ensure that the proposed prices and level of effort reflect a clear relationship of the work and skills required to perform the technical requirements of this contract.