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FA4620-12-R-B001

Section M - Evaluation Factors for Award

SECTION M

Section M - Evaluation Factors for Award

CLAUSES INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE:

52.217-5 EVALUATION OF OPTIONS (JUL 1990)

1.0 Basis for Contract Award:

This is a competitive best value source selection in which competing offerors’ past performance history will be evaluated on a basis approximately equal to price considerations. It will be conducted in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 15.3, as supplemented by the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), the Air Force Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (AFFARS) and Policy Memoranda 11-C-04 and 11-C-07. These regulations are available electronically at the Air Force (AF) FAR Site, http://farsite.hill.af.mil. By submission of its offer, the offeror accedes to all solicitation requirements, including terms and conditions, representations and certifications, in addition to those identified as evaluation factors. This may result in awards to higher rated, higher priced offerors, where the decision is consistent with the evaluation criteria, and the Source Selection Authority (SSA) reasonably determines that the past performance of the higher priced offeror(s) outweighs the cost difference. The SSA will base the source selection decision on an integrated assessment of the proposals against all source selection criteria in the solicitation (described below). While the Government source selection process, by its nature, is subjective, professional judgment is implicit throughout the entire process. As a result of this solicitation, the Government intends to award up to five contracts. In no way is the Government required to award a minimum number of contracts.

1.1 Evaluation: The offeror's submission of a competitive seed project price and relevant performance information must convey to the government that the offeror is capable, possesses technical expertise and experience, possesses sufficient resources, and is able to plan, organize, and use those resources to deliver timely and quality construction projects.

1.2 Price: After an initial compliance review, the Government shall arrange the seed project offers by price, from lowest to highest, and then determine whether the price is reasonable and realistic for the work described.

Submission of an unrealistically low or high price on the seed project, initially or subsequently, may be grounds for eliminating an offer from competition. Further, the evaluation of the seed project shall not obligate the Government to issue a task order for the seed project. Offerors must include a price for the seed project listed in Section J, “Attachments.” The Government may use various price analysis techniques and procedures to ensure a fair and reasonable price.

1.3 Performance: Past Performance will be evaluated as a measure of the Government’s confidence in the offeror’s ability to successfully perform based on previous and current contract and support agreements. Both a recency/relevancy rating and a confidence assessment rating will be assigned to each offeror. For the purpose of this evaluation, the “offeror” includes the prime contractor’s organization as complemented by the prime’s team (subcontractors and other operating units of the prime, for example). The assessment of past performance as a specific evaluation factor is separate and distinct from the Determination of Responsibility required by FAR Part

9. Past performance information may be obtained through the CCASS, ACASS and PPIRS systems, questionnaires tailored to the circumstances for this acquisition, through interviews with program managers and contracting officers, or other sources known to the Government. Data from previous source selections or contractor capability assessments will be used if the data is recent and relevant. To assist the Government’s evaluation, each offeror’s proposal will contain supporting past performance documentation which demonstrates multi-project/multi-discipline design-build construction experience for projects having a value of $1 million and above as described in Section L. Current performance will have greater impact in the performance confidence assessment than less recent performance. In determining relevancy, consideration will be given but

FA4620-12-R-B001

Amendment 2 2 May 2012