Assess whether to price to win or walk from a buy-in (117fb0)

SITUATION After a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling, shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps is what past-performance volume owner can touch in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance. Government RFP will live with To price to win versus Walk from a buy-in on this Protest and Modifications file.

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 shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize To price to win now; shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps already has the discriminator after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling. 2. Keep Walk from a buy-in in force until shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps is completed after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling for past-performance volume owner. 3. Treat shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps as To price to win because both readings appear after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling. 4. Refuse a Government RFP close: past-performance volume owner does not have the decision to price to win or walk turns on in shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance cannot waive quietly. 2. Map Section L/M requirements in shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps to evaluator notes after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling. 3. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps attaches. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps against a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling 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 (shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps after a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling). 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 shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps, then the action for past-performance volume owner - Hypothesis scorecard against shall-statement compliance matrix with gaps: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for past-performance volume owner in an incumbent defending a recompete with thin past performance - What changes to price to win or walk if a CMMC assessor finding on CUI handling is later withdrawn