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Numerical Scoring In Source Selection: Lessons To Be Learned


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The Nash & Cibinic Report, Volume 36, Issue 12

By Vernon J. Edwards

Addendum by Ralph C. Nash

Numerical (“point”) scoring/rating systems have long been used as a proposal evaluation technique. Once upon a time the use of such systems in the source selection process was common. But after a number of bid protest decisions in the 1970s and 1980s involving numerical scores, some agencies began to restrict or even prohibit their use and mandated the use of adjectival and colorrating schemes instead of numbers.

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Surely, one of the basic tenets for attorneys advising and representing a Government agency is to prevent the publication of a protest decision that tells the public that the agency is totally incompetent in carrying out its mission of procuring goods and services to meet what often are urgent needs.

Sick burn, bro.

To be clear, the quote above did not come from Mr. Edwards.

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