1.3  What This Guide and Template Will Answer

Specifically, this guide and template will help you prepare Section M, Evaluation Factors for Award, for solicitations in support of competitive source selections.  The guide will help you answer such questions as:

-  What goes in Section M?

-  How do you determine the basis for a source selection decision?

-  What evaluation subfactors should you use?

-  How do you determine the "discriminators" for a program?

-  How does Section M track with Section L and other source selection and solicitation documents?

-  How do you address the risks inherent in the proposed effort during source selection?