Career Technical Training Strategies & Development Contract

Please be advised of the following: 1. The closing date for the RFP is July 9, 2008 at 3:00 p.m., E.S.T. 2. Section M.3 is incorporated into the RFP as follows: M.3 BASIS FOR AWARD (BEST VALUE) The Government shall make award to the responsible offeror whose proposal is affordable to the Government as well as realistic in price, and is evaluated as the best overall value to the Government, price, past performance and technical factors considered. A cost realism analysis will be performed for all technically acceptable offerors. Contract award will be based on the combined evaluations of Contractor's Technical Proposal (Oral Presentation), Past Performance, and Price. The contract resulting from this solicitation will be awarded to the responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation, is determined to provide the "best value" to the Government, which may not necessarily be the proposals offering the lowest cost nor receiving the highest technical score. It should be noted that cost is not a numerically weighted factor. Although non-cost factors are significantly more important than cost, cost is an important factor and should be considered when preparing responsive offers (proposals). The importance of cost as an evaluation factor will increase with the degree of equality of the proposals in relation to the remaining evaluation factors. When the offerors are considered essentially equal in terms of technical, past performance and other no-cost factors (if any), or when cost is so significantly high as to diminish the value of the technical superiority to the Government, cost may become the determining factor for award. In summary, cost/no-cost trade offs will be made, and the extent to which one may be sacrificed for the other if governed only by the tests of rationality and consistency with the established factors. Prospective contractors are advised that the selection of a contractor for contract award is to be made, after a careful evaluation of the offers (proposals) received, by a panel of specialists chosen by DOL/OJC. Each panelist will evaluate the proposals for technical acceptability using a range of scores assigned to each factor. The factors are presented in the order of emphasis that they will receive (i.e., Factor A has the greatest weight, Factor B the second greatest weight, etc.). The scores will then be averaged to select a contractor for award on the basis of their proposal being the most advantageous to the Government, price and other factors considered.