(1) Establish the Evaluation Criteria You will Use to Decide Whether to Award a Conventional Annual-buy Contract or a Multi-year Contract. Review all FAR 17.106 requirements to see which ones apply to your acquisition.

(2) Establish the Evaluation Criteria You will Use to Select the Winning Contractor if it is a Competitive Acquisition.

(i) In any source selection, you should establish evaluation criteria that will be used to select the winning contractor. This checklist item addresses those aspects of the process that are affected by solicitation of dual proposals. Skip this part if your buy is not a competitive acquisition.

(ii) FAR 52.217-5, Evaluation of Options, can only apply as is, to the annual-buy alternatives. If certain options (e.g., for contractor logistics support, which would not be covered by the multi-year clauses) are associated only with the multi-year alternative, and you intend to evaluate them for purposes of award, you should write a separate Evaluation of Options clause, applicable to the multi-year alternative, that clearly explains your intentions.

(iii) You should decide whether the source selection decision is independent of, or interrelated with the decision on contracting approach (i.e., annual-buy or multi-year). The source selection decision is independent if the differences between the offerors' annual-buy and multi-year proposals will not affect the Source Selection Authority (SSA) selection of the source. Consider the following questions:

• QUESTION #1: Is the technical approach of each offeror likely to be the same regardless of contracting approach? In other words, is it unlikely that an offeror could significantly improve its technical proposal based on the practical advantages provided by the contemplated MYC approach? If the answer is yes, and technical is the predominant evaluation area, then the source selection decision is probably independent of the decision regarding contracting approach.

• QUESTION #2: If cost/price is a substantial factor in the source selection, will it matter to the SSA's decision if an offeror is "low" given the annual-buy alternative, but "high" given the multi-year alternative (or vice versa)? If the answer is yes, the decisions are interrelated. Section M of the RFP must explain how the alternative prices (i.e., annual-buy and multi-year) will be evaluated.