This is the first of a two-part blog series on point-scoring bids. In this installment, we’ll go over how point-scoring is used, discuss the issues they have faced and provide a run-down of current and upcoming point-scoring bids. In part two, we’ll get a bit more tactical by going over the components of typical point-scoring systems and strategies for improving your score and building a team to maximize your points…
Our current thinking around point-scoring bids is largely informed by the three most prominent bids in the past two years: NIH CIO-SP4, GSA Polaris, and GSA OASIS-Plus. These contracts represent over $300B in ceiling value, and over $74B has been spent across the current versions of these vehicles in the past 10 years. In our review of those three opportunities and others over the past ten years, we looked at the challenges the Government was trying to address, the commonalities among the opportunities, what was needed to maximize scoring, and how the Government views teaming and joint ventures…
Since GSA OASIS was awarded in 2014, GSA has transitioned all their GWACs to point- and/or credit-based evaluation models. This includes the on-ramp for OASIS (SB and Full and Open), GSA ASTRO, and Alliant 2 Full and Open. Alliant 2 Small Business was competed as a point-scored procurement but was eventually cancelled due to protest. In 2021, NIH competed their extremely popular CIO-SP4 vehicle as a point-based evaluation…
We are hopeful that the ongoing volume of protests on point-scoring bids is helping the Government improve their solicitations. A protest on GSA Alliant 2 Small Business was sustained, resulting in the eventual cancellation of the procurement and 81 awards being rescinded. The protest was related to cost accounting evidence compliance and pricing methodology. In more recent point-scoring bids, GSA drastically reduced cost accounting point values and removed pricing as a scored element… Read the full article here.
