ATTACHMENT 4 EXAMPLE OF SECTION L PAST PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE

L-(fill in the number).  Past and Present Performance Information-this will be included as part of the L provision, Instructions to Offerors.

Volume (fill in the number)  - Past and Present Performance

a.  Contents.  The offeror shall submit a Past and Present Performance Volume containing the following:

1.  Table of Contents

2.  Summary Page describing the role of the offeror and each subcontractor, teaming partner, and /or joint venture partner that the offeror is required to provide Past Performance Information Sheets on in accordance with paragraph b. below.

3.  Past Performance Information Sheets in accordance with Attachment (fill in number)-See paragraph b. below.

4.  Consent Letters executed by each subcontractor, teaming partner, and/or joint venture partner, authorizing the release of past performance information so the offeror can respond to such information.  A sample consent letter is attached as L-___ (See Attachment 3 to this guide).

5.  Client Authorization Letters for each identified effort for a commercial customer authorizing release to the Government of requested information on the offeror's performance.  

6.  Organization Structure Change History-See paragraph f. below.

b.  Past and Present Performance Information Sheets.  Submit information on contracts you consider most relevant in demonstrating your ability to perform the proposed effort.  The offeror shall submit Performance Information Sheets in accordance with the format contained in Attachment__(See Attachment 2 to this guide for a sample).  This information is required on the offeror and subcontractors, teaming partners, and/or joint venture partners proposed to perform ___per cent of the proposed effort based on the total proposed price, or perform aspects of the effort the offeror considers critical to overall successful performance.  The offeror shall submit ____(fill in a number) Performance Information Sheets identifying active or completed contracts, either Government or commercial, for each prime, teaming partner, and/or joint venture partner (within the same division or cost center) and ____(fill in a number) Performance Information Sheets for each major or critical subcontractor.  Each relevant contract shall have been performed during the past ___(fill in a number) years from the date of issuance of this solicitation.  Each Performance Information Sheet for each contract is limited to ___(fill in a number) pages.  Offerors are cautioned that the Government will use data provided by each offeror in this volume and data obtained from other sources in the evaluation of past and present performance.  (NOTE:  Prior to issuance of the RFP, the Government past performance team should decide whether to require information on key personnel in past performance information).

c.  Early Proposal Information.  The offeror is requested to submit the Past and Present Performance Volume ___(fill in number) calendar days after the RFP issuance date, to the Contracting Officer at the address specified in L___(fill in number).

d.  Relevant Contracts.  Submit information on contracts that you consider relevant in demonstrating your ability to perform the proposed effort.  Include rationale supporting your assertion of relevance.  For a description of the characteristics or aspects the Government will consider in determining relevance, see Section M, Clause M00__, paragraph__(fill in numbers).  Note that the Government generally will not consider performance on an effort that concluded more than _____years prior to the issuance date of this solicitation.  Offerors are required to explain what aspects of the contracts are deemed relevant to the proposed effort, and to what aspects of the proposed effort they relate.  To clearly link the past performance information to the mission capability subfactors, the offeror should identify which contracts are relevant indicators of performance against a mission capability subfactor.  Categorize the relevance information into the specific evaluation subfactor(s) used to evaluate the proposal:

(1)  Subfactor 1 -

(2)  Subfactor 2 -

(3)  Subfactor 3 -

(4)  Subfactor 4 -

e.  Specific Content.  Offerors may include a discussion of efforts accomplished by the offeror to resolve problems encountered on prior contracts as well as past efforts to identify and manage program risk.  Merely having problems does not automatically equate to a Limited or a No Confidence rating, since the problems encountered may have been on a more complex program, or an offeror may have subsequently demonstrated the ability to overcome the problems encountered.  The offeror is required to clearly demonstrate management actions employed in overcoming problems and the effects of those actions, in terms of improvements achieved or problems rectified.  This may allow the offeror to be considered a Substantial Confidence or Satisfactory Confidence candidate.    

f.  Organizational Structure Change History.  Many companies have acquired, been acquired by, or otherwise merged with other companies, and/or reorganized their divisions, business groups, subsidiary companies, etc.  In many cases, these changes have taken place during the time of performance of relevant present or past efforts or between conclusion of recent past efforts and this source selection.  As a result, it is sometimes difficult to determine what past performance is relevant to this acquisition.  To facilitate this relevancy determination, include in this proposal volume a "roadmap" describing all such changes in the organization of your company.  As part of this explanation, show how these changes impact the relevance of any efforts you identify for past performance evaluation/performance confidence assessment.  Since the Government intends to consider present and past performance information provided by other sources as well as that provided by the offeror(s), your "roadmap" should be both specifically applicable to the efforts you identify and general enough to apply to efforts on which the Government receives information from other sources.

g.  Questionnaires.  The Government requests the offeror send out Present/Past Performance Questionnaires to each of the Points of Contact (POCs) identified in the Past Performance Volume.  POC submit completed questionnaires directly to the Government.  Once the Present/Past Performance Questionnaires are completed by the POCs, the information contained therein shall be considered sensitive and shall not be released to you, the Offeror.  A cover letter for transmitting the questionnaire to each POC is provided.