Assess whether to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid (34305f)

SITUATION Performance and Teaming work in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR now turns on to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid because a government estimate that is 30% below your floor put small-business subcontracting plan short of goals in play. Contracts officer supporting a bid should say what small-business subcontracting plan short of goals proves.

DECISION Contracts officer supporting a bid in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR must choose To bid as prime, sub, / No-bid using small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Authorize To bid as prime, sub, now; small-business subcontracting plan short of goals already has the discriminator after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor. 2. Keep No-bid in force until small-business subcontracting plan short of goals is completed after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor for contracts officer supporting a bid. 3. Treat small-business subcontracting plan short of goals as To bid as prime, sub, because both readings appear after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor. 4. Refuse a Government RFP close: contracts officer supporting a bid does not have the decision to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid turns on in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Map Section L/M requirements in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals to evaluator notes after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor. 2. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what small-business subcontracting plan short of goals attaches. 3. Normalize pricing and exceptions against the solicitation that governs to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid. 4. For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read small-business subcontracting plan short of goals against a government estimate that is 30% below your floor and write the one fact that would move to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid for contracts officer supporting a bid.

RECOMMENDATION Choose To bid as prime, sub, / No-bid on this Government RFP / Performance and Teaming packet (small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after a government estimate that is 30% below your floor). The follow-on Performance and Teaming action is what contracts officer supporting a bid does next: implement the option, assign an owner, and log the missing fact.

COMMAND RETURNS - Bottom-line Government RFP option on to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid, then the evidence in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals, then the action for contracts officer supporting a bid - Hypothesis scorecard against small-business subcontracting plan short of goals: supported / rejected / untestable - Owner and next date for contracts officer supporting a bid in a lab competing a Phase II SBIR - What changes to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid if a government estimate that is 30% below your floor is later withdrawn