2.4.3.1 Evaluation Factors and their Relative Order of Importance
The evaluation factors for award relate to program characteristics, discriminators and risks, and are often divided into factors and subfactors. Except for specific exemptions (e.g., source selections below the Simplified Acquisition Threshold or for which Lowest Price Technically Acceptable or Performance Price Tradeoff methods are used - see MP5315.3, paragraph 2.1 for the complete list), the factors for Air Force source selections are mandated by AFFARS MP5315.3, paragraph 4.4.1 as follows:
- Mission Capability - includes both technical and risk ratings
- Cost or Price
- Cost/Price Risk - only mandatory for ACAT, SDD phase programs that use a cost reimbursement (CR) or fixed-price incentive (FPI) type contract structure and employ a most probable cost (MPC) evaluation approach for the Cost/Price Factor. (Approval from the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Contracting) is required to use Most Probable Life Cycle Cost as an evaluation criterion.)
You SHALL specify order of importance in solicitation Section M, Evaluation Factors for Award. This includes the order of importance of the factors and the Mission Capability subfactors.