Assess whether to price to win or walk from a buy-in (b21c36)

SITUATION Past-performance recency and relevance scorecard arrived with a task order that looks written for one vendor for past-performance volume owner. That is a Government RFP Protest and Modifications decision on to price to win or walk in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance.

DECISION Past-performance volume owner in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance must choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in using past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a task order that looks written for one vendor.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Past-performance volume owner can defend To price to win from past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a task order that looks written for one vendor in a Government RFP challenge. 2. Past-performance volume owner cannot defend To price to win from past-performance recency and relevance scorecard; Walk from a buy-in is what the extract actually supports after a task order that looks written for one vendor. 3. A task order that looks written for one vendor never reached the population in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard — reopen intake, do not close to price to win or walk. 4. Two facts in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a task order that looks written for one vendor conflict for past-performance volume owner; hold this Protest and Modifications file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs to price to win or walk. 2. Score competitive posture if past-performance volume owner pursues, partners, or no-bids. 3. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance cannot waive quietly. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read past-performance recency and relevance scorecard against a task order that looks written for one vendor and write the one fact that would move to price to win or walk for past-performance volume owner.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in on this Government RFP / Protest and Modifications packet (past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a task order that looks written for one vendor). 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 to price to win or walk, then the evidence in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard, then the action for past-performance volume owner - Hypothesis scorecard against past-performance recency and relevance scorecard: supported / rejected / untestable - Protest and Modifications finding in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard that a second reviewer can re-perform - Missing page in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a task order that looks written for one vendor, if any