VT - Attachment C - Evaluation Criteria

Attachment C – Evaluation Criteria

Venous Thrombosis (VT)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

STEP ONE (1) – MEETING KEY RFQ REQUIREMENTS

All Quoters will be evaluated for compliance with the RFQ requirements. Noncompliant quotes will be eliminated from this competition and will not be further evaluated.
All compliant quotes will then have their quote further evaluated using the factors listed in Step Two (2) – Trade-off.

STEP TWO (2) – TRADE-OFF

The Step Two Trade-Off evaluation consists of the following factors: -

Factor 1: Technical Acceptability
Factor 2: Past Performance
Factor 3: Price
Technical and past performance, when combined, are significantly more important than Price. Price is not the most important evaluation factor, but its degree of importance will increase commensurably with the degree of equality among different Quoter’s Technical and Past Performance quotes

9/25/2026

Attachment C – Evaluation Criteria

Venous Thrombosis (VT)

FACTOR 1: TECHNICAL ACCEPTABILITY (MERIT + PROGRAMMATIC)

Technical Acceptability will be evaluated in two tiers: 1) Scientific Merit Review: a panel of subject matter experts will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the quote (to include schedule and qualifications) and provide a Scientific Merit Review Rating.
2) Programmatic Relevancy Review: The Government will assess quotes for redundancy/alignment/impact to ongoing funded research, meeting the solicitation intent, and feasibility of the study and provide a Programmatic Relevancy Rating. The combination of Scientific Merit Review Rating and the Programmatic Relevancy Rating will generate a final Technical Acceptability rating (Please reference Definitions). Individual Scientific Merit and Programmatic Relevancy ratings will not be provided to respondents.

FACTOR 2: PAST PERFORMANCE

All compliant quotes will be evaluated to assess past performance. In addition to the information provided by the Quoter and its references, the Government reserves the right to evaluate information relative to performance using other sources of information such as the Contract Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS), SAM.gov, or other sources known to the Government.
Adjectival ratings will be assigned for Past Performance (Please reference Definitions).

FACTOR 3: PRICE

The quote will be evaluated for price reasonableness and completeness. Reasonableness will be determined utilizing various price analysis techniques of the total evaluated price (TEP) and the Quoter’s detailed pricing sheet.

9/25/2026