Assess whether to price to win or walk from a buy-in (1ba2ea)

SITUATION Protest and Modifications work in a contractor evaluating a modification that looks like out-of-scope work now turns on to price to win or walk because a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit put price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate in play. Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart should say what price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate proves.

DECISION Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in a contractor evaluating a modification that looks like out-of-scope work must choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in using price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate after a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate is the one a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit named, so To price to win follows for this Protest and Modifications file. 2. The population in price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate is adjacent only to a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit; Walk from a buy-in is the honest Government RFP call. 3. A contractor evaluating a modification that looks like out-of-scope work already contained a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit before price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate arrived; no new Protest and Modifications path. 4. Provenance on price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate after a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit is broken; do not pick To price to win or Walk from a buy-in yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights a contractor evaluating a modification that looks like out-of-scope work cannot waive quietly. 2. Map Section L/M requirements in price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate to evaluator notes after a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit. 3. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate attaches. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate against a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit and write the one fact that would move to price to win or walk for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in on this Government RFP / Protest and Modifications packet (price-to-win versus independent government cost estimate after a subcontracting goal the supply base cannot hit). The follow-on Protest and Modifications action is what protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.