Proposed Best Practices Guide for Contractor Performance Data Collection and Use, OCAO-2006-N01, OCAO–2006–N01 (Comment 4)

Document ID: GSA-GSA-2006-0013-0005
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: General Services Administration
Received Date: January 15 2007, at 04:47 PM Eastern Standard Time
Date Posted: January 18 2007, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: November 16 2006, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: January 16 2007, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 801f4930
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This is comment on Notice

Proposed Best Practices Guide for Contractor Performance Data Collection and Use, OCAO-2006-N01, OCAO–2006–N01, (Federal Register)

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Chapter 2 "Using Information Not Requested" Allowing evaluators to consider offeror information that is submitted in a proposal but not requested or part of the stated evaluation criteria could be a problem. Offerors are generally under the impression that proposals are evaluated based on the stated evaluation criteria in order to ensure a responsive and fair competition. The American Bar Association's 10 Principles of Competition in Public Procurement state that bids and proposals should be evaluated and awarded based "solely on the evaluation criteria in the solicitation and applicable law." In addition, a member of the Acquisition Advisory Panel made a recommendation that evaluation criteria be clearly and explicitely defined and that offerors should not have to guess at what the "inherent," "implicit," or "intrinsic" criteria are. Recommend, at least, deleting this note, or revising to state that evaluators should not consider additional information that has not been requested in the solicitation.