5.1.3  Approach #3 – Evaluate Technical, Rank by Price, Assess Performance until Proposal rated "Substantial Confidence"

Step 1 - Evaluate all proposals for technical acceptability.

Step 2 - Evaluate price reasonableness of all technically "acceptable" or "reasonably susceptible of being made acceptable" proposals, then rank by total evaluated price.

Step 3 - Evaluate lowest priced offeror's past performance.  If past performance is "Substantial Confidence", evaluation is complete.  If the lowest priced offeror's past performance is not "Substantial Confidence" evaluate the next lowest priced offeror's past performance.  Continue evaluating next lowest priced offeror's past performance until an offeror is rated "Substantial Confidence" or until all offerors are evaluated.  At this point, the evaluation is complete and the SSA proceeds to the integrated best value assessment of the evaluated offerors.