Assignment 4: Technical and Cost or Price Evaluations and Price Reasonableness

Due Week 8 and worth 130 points

Imagine that you are a government employee. You have received a proposal from a contractor for a two-billion-dollar ($2,000,000,000) project for the purchase of fifty (52) towers to be installed on the Arizona-Mexico border. Each tower will have radar, night vision, and day vision with 7.5- mile range. You have been appointed as the Chairman of the Source Selection Evaluation Team.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Defend the purpose of technical evaluations in regard to:

a. the importance of integrity and fairness.

b. the factors used to determine the competitive range.

2. Create and briefly describe an outline of the final technical evaluation report.

3. Determine the factors to consider when evaluating price reasonableness.

4. Examine different methods of price analysis. Determine which price analysis method would fit best in this scenario. Support your reasoning.

5. Use at least three (3) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources