Dave Murree

Interested to know if you have seen an agency limit the number of awards on a MAC when cost is not evaluated on the initial award but is evaluated later at the task order level. FAR 15.304(c)(1)(ii)(A)(3) "States that the Government intends to make an award to each and all qualifying offerors (see 2.101)." When looking at 2.101 we find "Qualifying offeror, as used in 13.106-1 and 15.304, means an offeror that is determined to be a responsible source, submits a technically acceptable proposal that conforms to the requirements of the solicitation, and the contracting officer has no reason to believe would be likely to offer other than fair and reasonable pricing (10 U.S.C. 2305(a)(3)(D))." In other words, could a solicitation state something like "Only the the top three highest technically rated proposals will be considered as a qualified offeror"?