Attachment 4 -Technical Evaluation Criteria.pdf

Attachment 3– Technical Evaluation Criteria Impact of the Collaborative Hubs for International Research in Mental Health

8/20/2020

Evaluation Process

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. Technical factors together shall be considered more important than price.

The award will be made on a competitive best value basis, using the “tradeoff’ approach among price-cost and non-price-cost factors. The Government may elect to award to other than the lowest priced offeror, or other than the highest rated non-price proposal. In either case, a tradeoff will be conducted. The government reserves such right of flexibility in conducting the evaluation as necessary to assure an award with the contractor providing the best value to the government.

Proposal Content Volume 1- Technical Proposal (Factor 1 - Technical Approach and Capability) The Offeror’s Technical proposal must not exceed a total of eight (8) pages. The page count does not include the title page, table of contents, cover page, or acronym list (if provided).

Volume 2- Resume Proposal (Factor 2- Key Personnel) The Offeror must submit a certified resume and a commitment letter for each resource proposed.

Volume 3- Price/Cost Proposal The offeror must complete the price/cost proposal in the MS Excel format provided in the Attachment 3 – Pricing Template.

Volume 4– Other Proposal Documents & Past Performance (Factor 3-Past Performance) The offeror must provide all other documents that are not included in the Technical, Resume or Price/Cost Volumes (as described above) in a separate volume. These include, but are not limited to:

Cover Letter Past Performance

Technical Evaluation Criteria Non-Cost-Price Technical Factors

Factor 1: Technical Approach and Capability

The Contractor shall be evaluated for understanding of the requirements in accomplishing the statement of work. The offeror’s technical approach shall indicate compliance with the requirements as out lined in the statement of work.

The Contractor shall also:

o Demonstrate an understanding of conducting programmatic research evaluation in global health.

o Demonstrate an understanding the objectives of the SOW and specific tasks, and planned execution of the project.

o Provide evidence of knowledge for developing a multi-level framework evaluation by which different aspects of the Hubs involved on the CHIRMH initiative will be evaluated, those aspects should include, but are not limited to those described in the SOW.

o Provide identification of roles and specify responsibilities for each role, as well as definition of the primary skill set required for each role o Provide description of resource planning processes, assessment, data sources and procedures to support the project for each site.

o Provide description and definition of management methods and processes for all types of support activities.

o Provide description of management and status reporting approaches.

o Demonstrate the ability to establish a collaboration with the five (5) funded Hubs involved on CMIRMH initiative.

o Demonstrate the ability to address anticipated potential problem areas, and creativity and feasibility of solutions to problems and future integration of new processes and technology enhancements.

o Demonstrate the ability to collect, assess analyze and synthesis data related to aspects described above;

o Demonstrate the ability to provide reports describing all tasks and subtasks completed, outcomes of each, timelines within which they were accomplished, any challenges encountered and how they were resolved and a brief description of analysis with lessons learned.

Factor 2: Key Personnel

The Contractor shall provide key personnel that are able to provide the following document experience, educational background and training, and availability of the proposed staff and their designated responsibility on the project. This includes the education, experience, managerial competence and time commitment of the proposed project manager and the experience, technical competence, and time commitment of other staff; staff expertise in travel logistics. In addition, the proposed key personnel shall provide documented history and/or peer-reviewed publications of conducting programmatic research evaluation in global health.

o Demonstrate capacity to ensure collaboration with the five (5) Hubs involved on the CHIRMH initiative.

o Not a member of any of the five (5) Hubs involved on the CHIRMH initiative o Not have any conflict of interested with the five (5) Hubs involved on the

CHIRMH initiative.

Factor 3: Past Performance (Pass/Fail)

The Contractor shall provide at least two (2) past performance references with knowledge of the contractor’s relevant skills and experience related to the requirements outlined in this Statement of Work within the past three years. References shall include the following information:

a) Name of Organization

b) Description of Contractor’s Responsibilities as they relate to this SOW

c) Contract Period of Performance

d) Contact Name and Title

e) Telephone Number

f) E-mail Address

g) Contact Name, Title, and Telephone Number

Past Performance shall be evaluated for relevance to the current requirement.

Documented successful past performance reflecting knowledge of NIH policies and programs, meeting planning experience, and expertise in travel support.