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Acquisition Process |
Requirement Market Research Risk analysis Acquisition strategy/acq plan RFP Source Selection Execution *clearance will depend on competitive or sole source basis |
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Types of source selection |
LPTA - well defined requirements, limited risk of technical failure, mature environment - mostly concerned about cost and technical is pass/fail Trade off process: originally called “best value” used for requirements that will require development or that have greater performance risk. Cost is not necessarily most important factor. Process allows for trade off among cost/price and non-cost/price factors (technical, risk, past performance/SB (non mandatory)) |
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Trade off factors |
Cost/price Quality of product/service that will be discriminators (one or more sub-factors) -Technical (comes with a risk rating) - Technical Risk -past performance (can be waived by the PCO) - recency, relevancy, quality -small business participation *L (instructions) & M (evaluation) must match |
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How do you decide your criteria for source selection? |
Market research and risk analysis |
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Key Players in Source Selection |
Source Selection Authority (SSA) - PCO is <$10M Source Selection Advisory Council (SSAC) - Required >$100M -consists of senior gov’t personnel -review evaluation of SSEB and provide advice and council to SSA Source Selection Evaluation Board (SSEB) -evaluates the proposal against RFP requirement and section M PCO -responsible for all business aspects of the solicitation -receive and control proposal and evaluation notices -awards contract -debrief successful offerors |
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Source Selection Process |
RFP prep: 4 approvals before RFP can be released -MIRT >$50M (not mandatory with Op Cleansweep) -business clearance approval -SSP must be signed -Acq Plan approval RFP release Proposal received -signed NDAs& OCI forms from SSEB members -no financial interest in any of the offerors or subs Proposal evaluation Competitive range brief to SSA -notify the offerors they are in the competitive range Evaluate RFPs Contract Clearance for approval Decision to brief SSA Notify Congress (1279 Report) >$7M (3 days before award) Award contract Conduct debriefs |