Assess whether the SBIR data-rights assertions are too aggressive (549ec1)

SITUATION The working file is small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall. Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP has to name Pursue or Pursue with conditions for this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file.

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 small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. An OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall is noise around an already-controlled Performance and Teaming process in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP, given small-business subcontracting plan short of goals. 2. An OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall is the event in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals that forces Pursue for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart under Government RFP. 3. Small-business subcontracting plan short of goals shows a one-file miss after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall, not a Performance and Teaming program failure. 4. Small-business subcontracting plan short of goals cannot decide the SBIR data-rights assertions yet after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall; hold is the only Government RFP close an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP can defend.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs the SBIR data-rights assertions. 2. Score competitive posture if protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart pursues, partners, or no-bids. 3. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP cannot waive quietly. 4. For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read small-business subcontracting plan short of goals against an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall and write the one fact that would move the SBIR data-rights assertions for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pursue / Pursue with conditions / Partner / No-bid on this Government RFP / Performance and Teaming packet (small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall). The follow-on Performance and Teaming action is what protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on the SBIR data-rights assertions, then the evidence in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals, then the action for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart - Hypothesis scorecard against small-business subcontracting plan short of goals: supported / rejected / untestable - What changes the SBIR data-rights assertions if an OCI letter naming an affiliate you forgot to firewall is later withdrawn - Named option among Pursue, Pursue with conditions, Partner and the fact that kills the others