Good morning, Yesterday, i spoke at length with my contact at GSA. I wanted to get their take on a price preference. Ultimately he said, GSA had nothing supporting or discouraging what I was thinking. Because of the conversation I relaized GSA might not be a viable option. If I'm procuring on GSA chances are I'm going to be able to set-aside, 80% of the contractors on GSA are Small. On a set-aside, a Price Preference isn't going to be needed. So now i'm back to an Unrestricted solicitation in the Open Market.
Also because of the call, Initially I thought this would only benefit on an LPTA evaluation; a Trade Off also seems plausible. As everyone knows, within a TO you list various factors that are more important than price. What happens if I simply include Socio status as more important than price?? Within reason.
The reason I am belaboring this so much is that Small Businesses are a powerful tool to our economy. Collective SB's employ more people than collectivel LB's. The more SB's we have, the more people are employed, the more tax revenue into theTreasury! At that, I'll be the first to admit this sounds great on paper, but I haven't seen a silver bullet saying Yes or No to the Price Preference I'm thinking of.