Assess whether to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid (688d9a)

SITUATION An 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP has small-business subcontracting plan short of goals in hand following a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. Protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart must determine whether to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid 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 To bid as prime, sub, / No-bid using small-business subcontracting plan short of goals after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. Small-business subcontracting plan short of goals reads as To bid as prime, sub, once a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement is lined up to the same Government RFP population. 2. Small-business subcontracting plan short of goals is closer to No-bid after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement; To bid as prime, sub, would over-claim this Performance and Teaming extract. 3. A dual reading is still live in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart in an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP. 4. Small-business subcontracting plan short of goals 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. Test OCI, QASP, and mandatory evaluation rights an 8(a) teaming on a civilian shared-services RFP cannot waive quietly. 2. Map Section L/M requirements in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals to evaluator notes after a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement. 3. Compare teaming and past-performance claims to what small-business subcontracting plan short of goals attaches. 4. For this Government RFP Performance and Teaming file, read small-business subcontracting plan short of goals against a teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement and write the one fact that would move to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid for protest-risk counsel's technical counterpart.

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 teammate that cannot meet the facility-clearance requirement). 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 to bid as prime, sub, or no-bid, 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 - Regulatory or exam hook Performance and Teaming would cite - Performance and Teaming finding in small-business subcontracting plan short of goals that a second reviewer can re-perform