SOURCE SELECTION DECISION Clause Samples

SOURCE SELECTION DECISION. The Source Selection Authority/Contracting Officer, independently exercising prudent business judgment, will make the source selection decision based on the proposal that represents the best value to the Government. The Source Selection authority / Contracting Officer will not receive a recommendation from any individual or body as to which offeror should receive the award and additionally will not receive a rank order or order of merit list pertaining to the offers being evaluated. The Source Selection Authority will use the Tradeoff Process approach for proposal evaluation and basis of contract award. The Source Selection Authority will evaluate quality proposals using adjective ratings and cost or price. All evaluation factors, when combined, other than cost or price are slightly more important than price. The Government will not award a contract to an Offeror whose proposal contains a deficiency, as defined in FAR 15.001. Factor 1 Design Technical and Schedule More Important than Factor 2 Element 1 Vol. 1 TAB A Design Analysis and Construction Approach More Important than Element 2 Element 2 Vol. 1 TAB B Proposed Project Summary Schedule Less Important than Element 1 Factor 2 Price and Pro Forma Information Less Important than Factor 1 Factor/ Element Location Description Relative Importance N/A Vol. 2 TAB A Price (Standard Form 1442 and Proposal Bid Schedules) Not Rated N/A Vol. 2 TAB B Bid Guarantee Evidence of Bondability Not Rated N/A Vol. 2 TAB C Required Pre-Award Information Not Rated

SOURCE SELECTION DECISION. The overall evaluation methodology set forth above will be used by the Contracting Officer as a guide in determining which quotations offer the best value to the U.S. Government. In accordance with FAR 52.215- 1, and as set forth in Section M of this solicitation, award will be made by the Contracting Officer to the responsible Offeror(s) whose quotations represents the best value to the U.S. Government after evaluation in accordance with all factors in this solicitation.

SOURCE SELECTION DECISION. The Government will make a source selection decision based on the Tradeoff process method in accordance with FAR 15.101-1. The Government intends to award a contract to the responsible offeror(s) whose proposal demonstrates the best value by exhibiting the greatest overall technical merit and performance confidence assessment at a reasonable price. Best value means the expected outcome of an acquisition that, in the Government’s estimation, provides the greatest overall benefit in response to the requirement (FAR 2.101). Accordingly, the Government may be willing to pay a reasonable premium for a contract offering superior overall technical merit and past performance. Conversely, the Government may select a lower-price, lower-rated proposal if the Government determines that the premium associated with the higher-rated proposal is not justified. In making its best value determination the Government shall consider technical merit (i.e., all non-price factors taken together) to be significantly more important than the total evaluated price. However, the importance of total evaluated price as an evaluation factor will increase with the degree of equality in overall technical merit of competing proposals.

SOURCE SELECTION DECISION. The Government intends to evaluate offers and award a contract using the procedures of FAR Part 15. The Government shall select the Offeror whose offer represents the best value to the Government, considering technical, past performance and price when compared to other proposals. The Government also reserves the right to not award a contract if a contract award is not in the best interest of the Government.