Assess whether the SBIR data-rights assertions are too aggressive (998a21)

SITUATION An OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall put OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate in front of contracts officer supporting a bid in a mid-tier integrator bidding a DoD IDIQ task order. This Government RFP / Protest and Modifications decision is the SBIR data-rights assertions from OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate, and the live options are Pursue, Pursue with conditions, Partner.

DECISION Contracts officer supporting a bid in a mid-tier integrator bidding a DoD IDIQ task order must choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid using OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize Pursue now; OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate already has the discriminator after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall. 2. Keep Pursue with conditions in force until OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate is completed after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall for contracts officer supporting a bid. 3. Treat OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate as Partner because both readings appear after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall. 4. Refuse a Government RFP close: contracts officer supporting a bid does not have the decision the SBIR data-rights assertions turns on in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs the SBIR data-rights assertions. 2. Score competitive posture if contracts officer supporting a bid pursues, partners, or no-bids. 3. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights a mid-tier integrator bidding a DoD IDIQ task order cannot waive quietly. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate against an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall and write the one fact that would move the SBIR data-rights assertions for contracts officer supporting a bid.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid on this Government RFP / Protest and Modifications packet (OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall). The follow-on Protest and Modifications action is what contracts officer supporting a bid does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on the SBIR data-rights assertions, then the evidence in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate, then the action for contracts officer supporting a bid - Hypothesis scorecard against OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate: supported / rejected / untestable - Missing page in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall, if any - Regulatory or exam hook Protest and Modifications would cite