Assess whether the bid is compliant enough to survive a responsiveness check

SITUATION In an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP, a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement put contract-mod scope creep log in play. Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart should decide whether the bid is compliant enough to survive a responsiveness check without filling gaps contract-mod scope creep log does not contain.

DECISION Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP must choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid using contract-mod scope creep log after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Contract-mod scope creep log reads as Pursue once a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement is lined up to the same Government RFP population. 2. Contract-mod scope creep log is closer to Pursue with conditions after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement; Pursue would over-claim this Performance and Teaming extract. 3. Partner is still live in contract-mod scope creep log for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP. 4. Contract-mod scope creep log is missing the fact protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart needs after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement; stop this Government RFP close.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map Section L/M requirements in contract-mod scope creep log to evaluator notes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. 2. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what contract-mod scope creep log attaches. 3. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs the bid is compliant. 4. For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read contract-mod scope creep log against a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement and write the one fact that would move the bid is compliant for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid on this Government RFP / Performance and Teaming packet (contract-mod scope creep log after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement). Lead with the Government RFP option contract-mod scope creep log can support after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement, then the two facts that force it, then the Monday action for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on the bid is compliant, then the evidence in contract-mod scope creep log, then the action for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against contract-mod scope creep log: supported / rejected / untestable - Regulatory or exam hook Performance and Teaming would cite - Performance and Teaming finding in contract-mod scope creep log that a second reviewer can re-perform