TECHNICAL_EVALUATION_FACTORS_Candy_Kitchen_2022_Evaluation_Criteria.docx

Evaluation Criteria Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) The Government intends to award the contract to a responsible party whose proposal is responsive to the solicitation process for the Candy Kitchen Vegetation Treatments FY22 project and provides “Best Value to the Government” on a Lowest Priced Technically Acceptable (LPTA) basis.

A technical Evaluation Panel consisting of no less than three members will conduct the initial evaluation. Upon completion of the evaluation period, the panel will review each proposal and make their final award recommendation to the Contracting Officer.

Provide your bid in two separate volumes:

Volume 1 – Pricing, Volume 2 – Non-pricing, which includes information related to the evaluation factors below.

All evaluation factors other than price, when combined will be weighted equally. The evaluation factors listed below will be used to select the contractor that offers the BLM the LPTA offer.

FACTOR 1 – Experience Provide a list of at least three (3) jobs completed or ongoing, in the past five (5) years in which you acted as a Prime Contractor or Sub-Contractor responsible for providing tree thinning services. At least one (1) of the three (3) jobs listed must have been completed in the past two (2) years. Each job description must contain the following information:

• The name of job

• The job start and end dates

• A brief description of services provided and the location of the job

• The owner of job

• The owner’s Contact information

• The total dollar value of the job FACTOR 2 – Past Performance The Offeror shall submit at least one (1) current/valid reference for each job listed in its response to Factor 1, Experience. The identified reference should be able to address the following aspects of the contractors’ past performance: quality of services provided, schedules, responsiveness to any issues noted during inspections, and safety.