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Attachment 3- Evaluation Criteria and Basis for Award (REV) RFP W9127Q-21-R-0007 Narcotics Investigations

AMENDMENT 01 - RCTA Technical Instructional Services LDA 20210409 "Attachment 3 Evaluation Criteria & Basis for Award" Replace/Add "Attachment 3 Evaluation Criteria & Basis for Award (REV)" Changes were necessary to clarify language related to the Technical Subfactors

EVALUATION CRITERIA and BASIS of AWARD

RFP W9127Q-21-R-0007

for Instructional Services-Narcotics Investigations

BASIS of AWARD

The award will be made based on the best overall (i.e., best value) proposal that is determined to be the most beneficial to the Government, with appropriate consideration given to the three evaluation factors: Technical, Price, and Past Performance. The Technical Factors and Past Performance Factor, when combined, are approximately equal to Price. In terms ofthe relative importance of the factors, all non-priced factors, when combined, are approximately equal to price.

To receive consideration for award, a rating of no less than “Acceptable” must be achieved for the Technical factors (to include all sub-factors). Offerors will be cautioned that the award may not necessarily be made to the lowest cost offered. The firms that represent the best value to the government will be selected for award in accordance with FAR subpart 15.1 Source Selection Processes and Techniques.

FACTORS AND SUBFACTORS TO BE EVALUATED

The following evaluation factors and subfactors will be used to evaluate each proposal: Award will be made to the offeror whose proposal is most advantageous to the Government based upon an integrated assessment of the evaluation factors and subfactors described below. The Government reserves the right to make award based upon the Cost/Price factor in the event that the Technical, Past Performance evaluation results of all the offerors’ proposals are substantially the same.

Technical Factors: Evaluation of the offeror’s proposal shall address each Technical subfactor as it applies to the Performance Work Statement (PWS). During evaluation of each proposal, the Government will assign each Technical subfactor an adjectival rating and write a narrative evaluation reflecting the identified findings. Technical subfactors are equally considered.

Technical Factor A: Narcotics Investigations, Basic Course Content is divided into the following subfactors:

This factor evaluates the offeror’s proposed Course Content for the basic contract period and all option years. Marginal levels of overall Course Content could indicate a lack of understanding concerning mission requirements and may result in the entire proposal receiving an unfavorable rating and/or being eliminated from the competitive range. The evaluation will focus on the offerors’:

Technical Sub-Factor A.1- The Narcotics Investigations course should be designed to achieve the maximum student orientation to the fundamental duties and responsibilities of a narcotics investigator. The skills learned in this course will disrupt the operations of national / transnational organized criminal networks (TOC), limit their access to funding, reduce assets and raise their cost of operations.

Technical Sub-Factor A.2- Course must include a pre-test and post-test to evaluate the level of overall class experience, which may be a written pre-test for immediate grading, or electronic classroom response system for immediate feedback and evaluation.

Technical Sub-Factor A.3- Course must include a systematic testing method forproviding interaction, feedback to students, checks for learning, and evaluating effectiveness of instruction such as daily electronic classroom response system orequivalent method of evaluation.

Technical Sub-Factor A.4- This course shall must cover the following topics (learning objectives) at a minimum:

• Identify drug enforcement strategies

• Learn integrity issues and ethical dilemmas faced by drug law enforcement officers

• Drug recognition, Controlled Substances Act, and categories of drugs / schedules.

• Search and Seizure laws and requirements of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth

Amendments.

• Learn the scope of a search pursuant to a warrant, the seizure of evidence, and post-seizure requirements.

• Learn development, management and control of Informants

• Learn the critical issues of working undercover, and the pitfalls in undercover operations.

• Learn physical surveillance activities.

• Learn how to plan a raid.

• Learn how to prepare for trial / courtroom testimony.

Technical Factor B: Advanced Narcotics Investigations Course Content is divided into the following subfactors:

concerning mission requirements and may result in the entire proposal receiving an unfavorable

Technical Sub-Factor B.1- Advanced Narcotics Investigation course curriculum builds from the Basic course to enhance successful major investigation to include narco-terrorism and transnational organized crime (TOC) activities. The course should develop the whole of government concept, legally acquired court order electronic surveillances and intercepts (T-3), and coordination and communication with Federal, State, local agencies, as well as prosecutors in order to ensure successful prosecutions. The techniques learned in this course should be designed to disrupt the flow of precursor chemicals, materials and illicit finance activities that support illegal drug production.

Technical Sub-Factor B.2- This course shall include a pre-test and a post-test to assessstudents’ understanding and to ensure all learning objectives were met.

Technical Sub-Factor B.3- This course must cover the following topics (learningobjectives) at a minimum:

• Sources of Information

• Informant Development, Handling, Documentation

• Multi-agency Investigations, M.O.U.’s

• Major Investigation Plans

• Undercover Operations

• Case Management

• T-3 Electronic Surveillance & Wiretaps

• Practical Exercises

Technical Factor C: Offeror/Instructor Qualifications are divided into the following subfactors:

concerning mission requirements and may result in the entire proposal receiving an unfavorable

Technical Sub-Factor C.1- The contractor and instructor(s) must have extensive prior full time narcotic drug enforcement experience in conducting investigations concerning basic narcotics and advanced narcotics investigations at the local, state or federal level.

Technical Sub-Factor C.2- The contractor must have extensive experience in the development, design and training of drug enforcement officers and be currently engagedin training drug enforcement officers on the subject matter of narcotics investigations inthe civilian law enforcement environment which must be certified by Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).

Technical Sub-Factor C.3- The contractor must have extensive experience in the training of law enforcement and be currently engaged in training law enforcement officers on the subject matter of narcotics investigations in the civilian law enforcementenvironment.

In accordance with the Army Source Selection Supplement (AS3), Section 3.1, the Army methodology for evaluating Technical Approach and Related Risk is the Combined Technical/Risk Rating, (see Table 1 below). This methodology considers risk, in conjunction with the strengths, weaknesses, significant weaknesses, uncertainties, and deficiencies in determining technical ratings.

TABLE 1 – COMBINED TECHNICAL/RISK RATINGS

Color Rating Description

Blue Outstanding Proposal indicates an exceptional approach and understanding of the requirements and contains multiple strengths, and risk of unsuccessful performance is low.

Purple Good Proposal indicates a thorough approach and understanding of the requirements and contains at least one strength, and risk of unsuccessful performance is low to moderate.

Green Acceptable Proposal meets requirements and indicates an adequate approach and understanding of the requirements, and risk of unsuccessful performance is no worse than moderate.

Yellow Marginal Proposal has not demonstrated an adequate approach and understanding of the requirements, and/or risk of unsuccessful performance is high.

Red Unacceptable Proposal does not meet requirements of the solicitation, and thus, contains one or more deficiencies, and/or risk of unsuccessful performance is unacceptable. Proposal is unawardable.

Past Performance Factor. The Government will evaluate the offeror’s record of past and current performance to ascertain the probability of successfully performing the required efforts of the PWS.

a. Evaluation of past performance shall be in accordance with this plan utilizing the forms and questionnaires set forth in Attachment 4B.

b. The Government will focus its inquiries on the offeror’s record of performance as it relates to all solicitation requirements, including cost, schedule, performance and management of subcontractors. For the purposes of this SSP/Requirement, major subcontractors are defined as members of an offeror’s overall team who are expected to perform significant percent or more of the proposed effort. A significant achievement, problem, or lack of relevant data in any element of the work can become an important consideration in the evaluation process. Therefore, offerors will be reminded to include the most recent and relevant efforts (within the past three years) in their proposal.

Absent any recent and relevant past performance history or when the performance record is so sparse that no meaningful confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned, the offeror will be assigned a “neutral confidence rating” and its proposal will not be evaluated either favorably or unfavorably on past performance. The Government may use data provided by the offeror in its proposal and data obtained from other sources, including data in Government files or data obtained through interviews with personnel familiar with the contractor and their current and past performance under

Federal, State or Local government or commercial contracts for same or similar services as compared to the NAICS 611699.

c. Offerors shall submit all Government and/or commercial contracts for the offeror in performance or awarded during the past three (3) years, from the issue date of this RFP, which are relevant to the efforts required by this RFP. The Government may consider a wide array of information from a variety of sources, but is not compelled to rely on all of the information available.

d. The past performance factor considers each offeror’s demonstrated recent and relevant record of performance in supplying products and services that meet the contract requirements. There are three aspects to the past performance evaluation:

recency, relevancy, and quality.

(i) RECENCY: The first aspect is to evaluate the recency of the offeror’s past performance. Recency is generally expressed as a time period during which past performance references are considered relevant, and is critical to establishing the relevancy of past performance information.

(ii) RELEVANCY: The second aspect is to determine how relevant a recent effort accomplished by the offeror is to the effort to be acquired through the source selection. Relevancy is not separately rated; however, the following criteria (see Table 2) will be used to establish what is relevant which shall include similarity of service/support, complexity, dollar value, contract type, and degree of subcontract/teaming.

Table 2 - Past Performance Relevancy Ratings

Rating Definition Very Relevant Present/past performance effort involved essentially the same scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Relevant Present/past performance effort involved similar scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Somewhat Relevant Present/past performance effort involved some of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

Not Relevant Present/past performance effort involved little or none of the scope and magnitude of effort and complexities this solicitation requires.

(iii) QUALITY ASSESSMENT: The third aspect assesses the overall quality of the offeror’s past performance. Documented results from Past Performance Questionnaires, interviews, CPARS, and other sources form the support and basis for this assessment.

e. Performance Confidence Assessment: Utilize the Performance Confidence Assessment (see Table 3 below) to select the most appropriate confidence level for each Offeror.

Ensure the rationale for the conclusions reached are included.

TABLE 3 - Performance Confidence Assessments Rating Definition Substantial Confidence Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the

Government has a high expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Satisfactory Confidence Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a reasonable expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

Neutral Confidence No recent/relevant performance record is available or the offeror’s performance record is so sparse that no meaningful confidence assessment rating can be reasonably assigned. The Offeror may not be evaluated favorably or unfavorably on the facto of past performance.

Limited Confidence Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has a low expectation that the offeror will successfully perform the required effort.

No Confidence Based on the offeror’s recent/relevant performance record, the Government has no expectation that the offeror will be able to successfully perform the required effort.

Cost/Price Factor. Adjectival ratings shall not be used for offerors’ Cost/Price proposals. The Government will fully evaluate and negotiate all priced Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) for award. For award purposes, the total proposed price for all CLINs will be added together into a total sum (contract value). The evaluation of all option CLINs will not obligate the Government to exercise any option. The Offeror’s Cost/Price proposal will be evaluated as follows.

The results of the cost realism evaluation will determine the probable cost of performance as it relates to the technical approach proposed by each offeror and will be utilized in the selection of the offer that provides the best value to the Government. As part of the realism analysis, the Government will calculate an evaluated cost by adjusting each offeror’s proposed cost to reflect any additions or reductions in cost elements to realistic levels based on the results of the cost realism analysis. The evaluated cost may differ from the proposed cost and will reflect the Government’s best estimate of the cost that is most likely to result from the Offeror’s proposal.

If the total evaluated cost is higher than the proposed, the evaluated becomes the probable cost. If the total evaluated cost is lower than the proposed, the proposed becomes the probable cost.

FFP Evaluation. For a price to be fair and reasonable, it must represent a price to the Government that a prudent person would pay in the conduct of competitive business.

The Offeror’s proposed fixed-price CLINs may be evaluated, using one or more of the techniques described in FAR 15.404-1 in order to determine if they are fair and reasonable.

Overall Cost/Price Proposal Evaluation: The overall Cost/Price proposal will evaluated for the following:

1) Compliance: The Cost/Price proposal submitted by the Offeror will be evaluated for compliance based upon the submission requirements contained in the Attachment 2- Proposal Submission Requirements W9127Q21R0008 and related submission form -2A

2) Unbalanced Pricing: The Offeror’s overall Cost/Price proposal will be evaluated for unbalanced pricing as defined in FAR 15.404-1(g). An offer may be rejected if the contracting officer determines that the lack of balance poses an unacceptable risk to the Government (see FAR 15.404-1(g)(1) through FAR 15.404-1(g)(3)).

3) Errors: The Offeror’s Cost/Price proposal will be reviewed for errors. The

Offeror may be given an opportunity to clarify certain aspects of their proposal at the sole discretion of the Contracting Officer.

4) Business Systems: The Government will verify the adequacy of the Offeror’s business systems.

5) Total Evaluated Price: The Total Evaluated Price consists of summing the Offeror’s proposed fixed-price for all CLIN prices including option periods/years.

6) FAR 52.217-8 Option to Extend Services is included in the RFP. However it will not be in consideration of price evaluation in that it, by regulation is automatically priced one half og the last option period/year cost. Until such action is necessary, no CLIN is evidient to Extend Services at this time. Note the Clause will be in effect for this contract award.

**In accordance with FAR 15.306(d), it is the Government’s intent NOT to have discussions for this requirement.**