Best Value Tradeoff Procedures Clause Samples

Best Value Tradeoff Procedures. A tradeoff process is appropriate when it may be in the best interest of the Government to consider award to other than the lowest priced proposal or other than the highest technically rated proposal. This process permits tradeoffs among cost or price and non-cost factors and allows the Government to accept other than the lowest priced proposal. The perceived benefits of the higher priced proposal that merits the additional cost, will be incorporated into the resultant task order. When using a tradeoff process, the following apply: All evaluation factors and significant sub factors that will affect contract award and their relative importance will be clearly stated in the Task Order Request (TOR); and The TOR will state whether all evaluation factors other than cost or price, when combined, are significantly more important than, approximately equal to, or significantly less important than cost or price.