(Revised October 1, 2024)
PGI 236.6-ARCHITECT-ENGINEER SERVICES
PGI 236.602 Selection of firms for architect-engineer contracts.
(a) The evaluation criteria should be project specific. Use the information in the DD Form 1391, FY__ Military Construction Project Data, when available, and other pertinent project data in preparing the evaluation criteria.
(4) Use performance evaluation data from the Contractor Performance Assessment Report System (CPARS).
(6) The primary factor in architect-engineer contractor selection is the determination of the most highly qualified firm. Also consider secondary factors such as geographic proximity and equitable distribution of work, but do not attribute greater significance to the secondary factors than to qualifications and past performance. Do not reject the overall most highly qualified firm solely in the interest of equitable distribution of contracts.
(A) Consider the volume of work awarded by DoD during the previous 12 months. In considering equitable distribution of work among architect-engineer firms, include small business concerns; historically black colleges and universities and minority institutions; firms that have not had prior DoD contracts; and small disadvantaged business concerns and joint ventures with small disadvantaged business participants if the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Industry Subsector of the acquisition is one in which use of a price evaluation adjustment is currently authorized (see FAR 19.201(b)).
(1) Use data extracted from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS).
(2) Do not consider awards to overseas offices for projects outside the
(B) Consider as appropriate superior performance evaluations on recently completed DoD contracts.
(C) Consider the extent to which potential contractors identify and commit to small business, to small disadvantaged business (SDB) if the NAICS Industry Subsector of the subcontracted effort is one in which use of an evaluation factor or subfactor for participation of SDB concerns is currently authorized (see FAR 19.201(b)), and to historically black college or university and minority institution performance as subcontractors.
This fee limitation applies only to Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force requirements (e.g., if the Department of the Army awards a contract for the Defense Logistics Agency or the Department of the Interior, this fee limitation does not apply). See FAR 15.404-4(c)(4)(i)(B) for the fee limitation that applies to other DoD components and civilian agencies.