I am involved with an RFP for a FFP construction contract that has three technical factors, two of which have sub-factors. Our office ranks each factor and sub-factor of the technical proposals using an adjective rating system: Exceptional, Acceptable, Neutral (only used of past-performance), Marginal and Unacceptable My question is, can the CO make an award to an offeror if their proposal has one technical sub-factor ranked as "marginal" as opposed to being either "acceptable" or "excep