5.2.2  Objective

The past performance evaluation should take into consideration the most recent data available.  The best practice is to select similar efforts that are either just completed or still in progress and have at least one year of performance history.  Remember that the purpose of the evaluation is to make a performance confidence assessment of the offeror's ability to perform the effort described in the solicitation.  This assessment represents the government's judgment of the probability of the offeror successfully accomplishing the proposed effort based on the offeror's demonstrated past performance history.