Assess whether to price to win or walk from a buy-in (b316bd)

SITUATION Contracts officer supporting a bid owns this Protest and Modifications review in a mid-tier integrator bidding a DoD IDIQ task order. A teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement is the triggering event; teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes is the evidence for whether to price to win or walk from a buy-in.

DECISION Contracts officer supporting a bid in a mid-tier integrator bidding a DoD IDIQ task order must choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in using teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize To price to win now; teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes already has the discriminator after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. 2. Keep Walk from a buy-in in force until teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes is completed after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement for contracts officer supporting a bid. 3. Treat teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes as To price to win because both readings appear after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. 4. Refuse a Government RFP close: contracts officer supporting a bid does not have the decision to price to win or walk turns on in teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map Section L/M requirements in teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes to evaluator notes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. 2. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes attaches. 3. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs to price to win or walk. 4. For this Government RFP Protest and Modifications file, read teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes against a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement and write the one fact that would move to price to win or walk for contracts officer supporting a bid.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To price to win / Walk from a buy-in on this Government RFP / Protest and Modifications packet (teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement). If teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes cannot force a Government RFP label under Protest and Modifications, stop. If teaming agreement with IP and workshare holes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement cannot support To price to win versus Walk from a buy-in on this Government RFP Protest and Modifications close, contracts officer supporting a bid must identify the Section L/M or evaluation criterion that remains unproven rather than filling the gap.