Assess whether the bid is compliant enough to survive a responsiveness check

SITUATION In an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance, discriminator table that still reads generic is the evidence after a key person who just resigned. Past-performance volume owner has to pick Pursue or Pursue with conditions for this Government RFP Protest and Modifications close using discriminator table that still reads generic.

DECISION Past-performance volume owner in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance must choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid using discriminator table that still reads generic after a key person who just resigned.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. A key person who just resigned is noise around an already-controlled Protest and Modifications process in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance, given discriminator table that still reads generic. 2. A key person who just resigned is the event in discriminator table that still reads generic that forces Pursue for past-performance volume owner under Government RFP. 3. Discriminator table that still reads generic shows a one-file miss after a key person who just resigned, not a Protest and Modifications program failure. 4. Discriminator table that still reads generic cannot decide the bid is compliant yet after a key person who just resigned; hold is the only Government RFP close an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map Section L/M requirements in discriminator table that still reads generic to evaluator notes after a key person who just resigned. 2. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what discriminator table that still reads generic attaches. 3. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs the bid is compliant. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read discriminator table that still reads generic against a key person who just resigned and write the one fact that would move the bid is compliant for past-performance volume owner.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid on this Government RFP / Protest and Modifications packet (discriminator table that still reads generic after a key person who just resigned). The follow-on Protest and Modifications action is what past-performance volume owner does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on the bid is compliant, then the evidence in discriminator table that still reads generic, then the action for past-performance volume owner - Hypothesis scorecard against discriminator table that still reads generic: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes the bid is compliant if a key person who just resigned is later withdrawn - Named option among Pursue, Pursue with conditions, Partner and the fact that kills the others