Political Quotes

“many have indicated they would like to be informed as soon as possible in the evaluation process if they had no chance for award in order to save time and expense. We have not heard that firms wish to have their initial proposals, which is what this amendment would do, have their initial proposals rejected based on less than a complete evaluation. So, this amendment really, I think, takes away that full and complete evaluation at the outset. The concern has been that offerors are encouraged to incur the expense of submitting revised proposals without the real chance of getting the award. This is addressed in H.R. 1670 by providing for increased information in the public notice so that offerors are provided, as early as possible in the process, detailed information concerning the evaluation criteria to appear in the solicitation and by granting acquisition professionals increased discretion in accordance with the announced evaluation criteria throughout the selection process. Mr. Chairman, what this basically says is that we do treat all of the applicants fairly. We do allow everybody to come in. This is not an exclusionary process. We treat them very fairly, but we do tell them up front what this is about. It also gives the Federal Government the opportunity to have some flexibility, some discretion about the way they do it.”