Assess whether key personnel substitutions will trigger evaluation risk
August 31, 2026 · SmartSolo
Situation
The desk packet is past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned. Contracts officer supporting a bid in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR has to name Pursue or Pursue with conditions for this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file.
Decision
Contracts officer supporting a bid in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR must choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid using past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned.
Hypotheses to test
- Contracts officer supporting a bid can defend Pursue from past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned in a Government RFP challenge.
- Contracts officer supporting a bid cannot defend Pursue from past-performance recency and relevance scorecard; Pursue with conditions is what the extract actually supports after a key person who just resigned.
- A key person who just resigned never reached the population in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard — reopen intake, do not close key personnel substitutions will.
- Two facts in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned conflict for contracts officer supporting a bid; hold this Performance and Teaming file.
Analysis required
- Map Section L/M requirements in past-performance recency and relevance scorecard to evaluator notes after a key person who just resigned.
- Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what past-performance recency and relevance scorecard attaches.
- Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs key personnel substitutions will.
- For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read past-performance recency and relevance scorecard against a key person who just resigned and write the one fact that would move key personnel substitutions will for contracts officer supporting a bid.
Recommendation
Choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid on this Government RFP / Performance and Teaming packet (past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned). If past-performance recency and relevance scorecard cannot force a Government RFP label under Performance and Teaming, stop. If past-performance recency and relevance scorecard after a key person who just resigned cannot support Pursue versus Pursue with conditions on this Government RFP Performance and Teaming close, contracts officer supporting a bid must identify the Section L/M or evaluation criterion that remains unproven rather than filling the gap.
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