Assess whether to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid (092714)

SITUATION Protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors arrived with a task order that looks written for one vendor for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart. That is a Government RFP Performance and Teaming decision on to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP.

DECISION Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP must choose To bid as prime, sub, / No-bid using protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors after a task order that looks written for one vendor.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. The population in protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors is the one a task order that looks written for one vendor named, so To bid as prime, sub, follows for this Performance and Teaming file. 2. The population in protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors is adjacent only to a task order that looks written for one vendor; No-bid is the honest Government RFP call. 3. An 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP already contained a task order that looks written for one vendor before protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors arrived; no new Performance and Teaming path. 4. Provenance on protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors after a task order that looks written for one vendor is broken; do not pick To bid as prime, sub, or No-bid yet.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors attaches. 2. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid. 3. Score competitive posture if protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart pursues, partners, or no-bids. 4. For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors against a task order that looks written for one vendor and write the one fact that would move to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To bid as prime, sub, / No-bid on this Government RFP / Performance and Teaming packet (protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors after a task order that looks written for one vendor). Lead with the Government RFP option protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors can support after a task order that looks written for one vendor, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid, then the evidence in protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors, then the action for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against protest-exposure memo on evaluation factors: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP - What changes to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid if a task order that looks written for one vendor is later withdrawn