Assembling a source selection evaluation team is often a “Hey You...!” drill that can result in team members lacking the right functional expertise or managerial structure to conduct a solid evaluation of vendor proposals.  This can lead to a “stove piped” source selection team operating without coordinated evaluation priorities, under poorly planned selection guidance, and with inefficient communication processes.  This translates into vague scoring criteria, delayed vendor selection, and can cause an award to come under increasing scrutiny and protest pressure.  All too often, a seemingly well-planned procurement finds itself bogged down in legal review, unable to be awarded, due to inadequate source selection.   

CEXEC has the professional acquisition expertise to help plan an integrated, comprehensive, and detailed source selection.  In our experience, source selection planning is an essential element of the overall pre-award process, with technical and performance metrics that are well detailed and fully integrated into final evaluation criteria. CEXEC personnel regularly serve as advisory representatives on Technical, Past Performance, Management and Cost/Price evaluation teams, creating an integrated and cross-functional evaluation process.  This support lends much needed consistency to complex acquisitions from the very beginning (Requirements Development) to the very end (Contract Award).  

CEXEC employs innovative pre-award planning to ensure that the evaluation process is a primary consideration throughout the entire acquisition lifecycle.  We will often use automated tools like Expert Choice to translate evaluation factor and subfactor scoring into definitive, defensible numerical scores.  These tools not only facilitate a collaborative and well-understood selection process, but also drastically reduce the likelihood of technical failure or protests due to scoring ambiguity.  By utilizing CEXEC’s seasoned advisory professionals and well-established evaluation tools and procedures, you can achieve an integrated and effective source selection.  

If you are ready to experience the difference CEXEC support can provide, contact CEXEC today!