Past Performance in Source Selection, An Evaluation Guide

This pamphlet describes an innovative way to evaluate contractor past performance during the source selection process. The Army Materiel Command AMC contracting activities helped to develop, test and implement this approach which results in smarter procurement decisions and better contracts. The distinctive feature of this program is that it uses information that is outside of the offerors proposals to evaluate past performance. No longer must contracting activities rely solely upon the very contractors being evaluated for past performance information. Now contracting officers can use independent sources of information to determine how well those contractors performed in the past. A thorough evaluation of past performance identifies the relative performance risks associated with competing proposals and thereby serves to ensure that awards are made to good performers rather than to just good proposal writers. AMC-P 715-3, Vol 4, Past performance in-source selection, An evaluation guide, Source selection, Contracting.