![]() ![]() (5) the contracting officer has included a justification for the use of a lowest price technically acceptable evaluation methodology in the contract file and (4) the source selection authority has a high degree of confidence that a review of technical proposals of offerors other than the lowest bidder would not result in the identification of factors that could provide value or benefit to the Department (3) the proposed technical approaches will require no, or minimal, subjective judgment by the source selection authority as to the desirability of one offeror’s proposal versus a competing proposal (2) the Department of Defense would realize no, or minimal, value from a contract proposal exceeding the minimum technical or performance requirements set forth in the request for proposal (1) the Department of Defense is able to comprehensively and clearly describe the minimum requirements expressed in terms of performance objectives, measures, and standards that will be used to determine acceptability of offers (b) Revision of defense federal acquisition regulation supplement.-Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall revise the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to require that, for solicitations issued on or after the date that is 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, lowest price technically acceptable source selection criteria are used only in situations in which. (a) Statement of policy.-It shall be the policy of the Department of Defense to avoid using lowest price technically acceptable source selection criteria in circumstances that would deny the Department the benefits of cost and technical tradeoffs in the source selection process. ![]() ![]() SEC 813 – Use of lowest price technically acceptable source selection process. This change, which must be implemented in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) within the next four months, should substantially limit DoD’s reliance upon LPTA, and instead require DoD to more frequently employ the Best Value Trade-Off Basis for Award. LPTA has been increasingly employed by organizations within the Department of Defense (DoD) in a wide array of acquisitions based upon the relative speed with which such acquisitions can be completed and the minimal protest risk attributable to that approach regardless of the appropriateness or applicability of the LPTA Basis for Award to the objectives and structure of those acquisitions. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 has imposed significant restrictions on, and preconditions for the use of, the Lowest Price Technically Acceptable (LPTA) Basis for Award. ![]()
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