FA3010-16-R-0027-0001_(Solicitation_Amendment).doc

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SECTION SF 1449 - CONTINUATION SHEET

The following have been added by full text:

52.212-2 EVALUATION--COMMERCIAL ITEMS (OCT 2014)

(a) The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer conforming to the solicitation will be most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered. The following factor(s) shall be used to evaluate offers:

(1) Compliance with solicitation requirements

(2) Past Performance

(3) Price

Past performance is significantly more important than price when being evaluated. Compliance with solicitation requirements will be evaluated as either acceptable or unacceptable. The evaluation process shall proceed as follows:

(b) By submission of its offer, the offeror agrees to comply with all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, and technical requirements. Offerors must clearly identify any exception to the solicitation terms and conditions and provide complete accompanying rationale. Compliance with solicitation requirements will be evaluated as either acceptable or unacceptable.

(c) An offeror’s proposed prices will be determined by multiplying the quantities identified in the Pricing Schedule by the unit price for each item to confirm the extended amount of each. Copies of the Pricing Schedule will be necessary in order to submit a proposal for each Option Year (if options). The total evaluated price includes the total price for all options along with the basic requirement (if options). Evaluation of options shall not obligate the Government to exercise the option(s). Proposals with option prices that are significantly unbalanced will be evaluated as noncompliant. Offerors shall propose on all items. If there is to be no charge for an item, an entry such as “no charge”, or the letters “N/C” or “0” must be made in the unit price column. Proposals that fail to price each item or indicate services will be provided at no charge will be evaluated as noncompliant. An offer using a sliding price scale or subject to escalation based on a contingency will be evaluated as noncompliant. Other than firm fixed-price offers will be evaluated as noncompliant. The price evaluation will document the reasonableness of the proposed total evaluated price for the apparent successful offeror. For the purposes of identifying the order past performance evaluations will be conducted, offers shall be ranked according to price, from lowest to highest.

(d) Using questionnaires, the contracting officer shall seek relevant performance information on all offerors based on (1) the past and present efforts provided by the offeror and (2) data independently obtained from other government and commercial sources. For the purpose of this solicitation, recent contracts are defined as those on which some portion of performance occurred during the last three (3) years from date of receipt of proposal. Relevant performance includes present/past performance effort involving similar scope and magnitude of effort as this solicitation. Relevancy ratings are defined in Table 1 below. In evaluating past performance, greater consideration may be given to information on those contracts deemed most relevant to the effort described in this solicitation. The purpose of the past performance evaluation is to allow the government to assess the offeror’s ability to perform the effort described in this RFP, based on the offeror’s demonstrated present and past performance. The assessment process will result in an overall performance confidence assessment of Substantial Confidence, Satisfactory Confidence, Limited Confidence, No Confidence, or Unknown Confidence as defined in Table 5 of the DoD Source Selection Procedures. Offerors with no relevant past or present performance history or with a performance record so limited that no confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned shall receive the rating "Unknown Confidence," meaning the rating is treated neither favorably nor unfavorably.

Table 1. Past Performance Relevancy Ratings

(e) Offerors may be asked to clarify certain aspects of their proposal and respond to adverse past performance information to which the offeror has not previously had an opportunity to respond. Adverse past performance is defined as past performance information that supports a less than satisfactory rating on any evaluation element or any unfavorable comments received from sources without a formal rating system.

(f) If the lowest priced evaluated offer is judged to have a Substantial Confidence performance assessment, that offer represents the best value for the government and the evaluation process stops at this point. Award shall be made to that offeror without further consideration of any other offers.

(g) If the lowest priced offeror is not judged to have a Substantial Confidence performance confidence assessment, the next lowest priced offeror will be evaluated and the process will continue (in order by price) until an offeror is judged to have a Substantial Confidence performance confidence assessment or until all offerors are evaluated. The Source Selection Authority shall then make an integrated assessment best value award decision.

(h) Clarifications and communications, as defined in FAR 15.306, do not constitute discussions. The government intends to evaluate proposals and make award without discussions. However, the government may determine it is necessary to conduct discussions.

(i) A written notice of award or acceptance of an offer, mailed or otherwise furnished to the successful offeror within the time for acceptance specified in the offer, shall result in a binding contract without further action by either party. Before the offer's specified expiration time, the Government may accept an offer (or part of an offer), whether or not there are negotiations after its receipt, unless a written notice of withdrawal is received before award.

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