How Do You Bid an RFP You Can't Open?
SOCOM's counterproliferation support recompete went out September 28, 71 minutes after the draft comment window closed. The next day the government added the condition that decides the bidders list before any evaluation starts: a NIST SP 800-171 assessment score of 110 posted in SPRS, verified, before anyone is allowed to read the documents.
If you watch SOF AT&L, your saved search told you Monday that the counterproliferation support recompete finally went out. What it could not tell you is whether you are allowed to open it.
The solicitation is H9240226RE005, PMCP Service Support, posted September 28 at 21:11Z by HQ USSOCOM. Total small business set-aside, NAICS 541330, PSC R425, proposals due October 29 at noon ET.
The next morning the government posted a second version of the notice with a sentence that was not in the first one.
"Prior to granting access, the government will verify that the contractor maintains a current NIST SP 800 171 DoD Assessment score of 110 posted in the Supplier Performance Risk System (SPRS)."
Attachments 1, 1a, 1b, 1c, 2 and 3 are the solicitation, and none of them is on SAM.
You send a signed NDA to a SOCOM shared mailbox, the government checks your SPRS record, and if your score is a 110 the documents appear in your PIEE solicitation module.
A 110 is the top of the scale. It is also a higher bar than the rule that governs whether you can win the thing (chart below).
So the bid/no-bid on this one got decided in a system most capture shops treat as a compliance chore, by a number somebody in IT posted months ago.
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