Past-performance volume owner must resolve whether a protest is rational

Situation

A teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement put OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate in front of past-performance volume owner in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR. This Government RFP / Compliance and Cyber Requirements close is a protest is rational from OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate, and the live options are Pursue, Pursue with conditions, Partner.

Decision

Past-performance volume owner in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR must choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid using OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement.

Hypotheses to test

• The population in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate is the one a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement named, so Pursue follows for this Compliance and Cyber Requirements file.
• The population in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate is adjacent only to a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement; Pursue with conditions is the honest Government RFP call.
• A lab competing a Phase II SBIR already contained a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement before OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate arrived; no new Compliance and Cyber Requirements path.
• Provenance on OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement is broken; do not pick Pursue or Pursue with conditions yet.

Analysis required

• Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights a lab competing a Phase II SBIR cannot waive quietly.
• Map Section L/M requirements in OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate to evaluator notes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement.
• Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate attaches.
• For this Government RFP Compliance and Cyber Requirements file, read OCI mitigation plan that names the wrong affiliate against a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement and write the one fact that would move a protest is rational for past-performance volume owner.

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