I am a contract specialist and have been told that a new service requirement is needed. The contract vehicle will be a task order off of a MATOC, using the trade off source selection process. The dilemma that I am facing is that I have been told that we will not do a full blown source selection, but a simplified one. I haven’t been shown the difference in the two methods. I have research WIFCON and other sites, and haven’t been able to find the answer that I am looking for.
1. I am in the process of doing a Source Selection Plan SSP, and wanted to know your thoughts on doing trade off with a task order.
2. Is there really a simplified method of doing a source selection for task orders, if we are going to follow the steps for a source selection board?
3. Has anyone conducted a simplified source selection, if so, how was it different from the normal method?
I have asked these questions to my leadership and we are still figuring out how it should be formulated. I assumed that since source selection was completed on the original contract, that doing source selection for each task order would be overkill. The customer wants to ensure that the best of the best contractor is receiving the award. Of course I realize that I may be wrong. I just wanted to get some feedback from the site.
I know I have asked a lot of questions, so please be gentle or softly blunt.
Thanks