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of quality of experience had been adequately considered. The board’s findings
confirmed the ratings given by the subcommittee. The board recognized that the
Cost Panel had not had access to sufficient information to adequately rate the
items of Cost Experience and Cost Estimate. The board further found that the
Organization and Management Panel had sufficient information to adequately
assess the Cost Experience item and so its rating of this item was used. The board
through the use of an Ad Hoc Panel analysed the realism of the cost estimates in
relation to the work proposed and subsequently rated this item. The rating for
each proposal in the three major areas and a summary weighting obtained by
applying the weight factors is presented below.
Ratings by Area
Technical
Approach
(30%)
Technical
Qualifications
(30%)
Business
(40%)
The Martin Company 5.58 6.63 8.09
General Dynamics/
Astronautics
North American
Aviation, Inc.
General Electric
Company
McDonnell Aircraft
Corporation
5.27 5.35 8.52
5.09 6.66 7.59
5.16 5.60 7.99
5.53 5.67 7.62
Summary Ratings
The Martin Company 6.9
General Dynamics/Astronautics 6.6
North American Aviation, Inc. 6.6
General Electric Company 6.4
McDonnell Aircraft Corporation 6.4
As can be seen, the North American and General Dynamics/Astronautics
proposals received the same rating. In assessing the ratings, the board recognized
that all the proposals had received high ratings in the Business area, the lowest
rating (7.59) being higher than the highest rating (6.66) received in either
the Technical Approach or Technical Qualifications area. Since those ratings
established [11] that all the companies could more than adequately handle
the business aspects of the program, the board turned its consideration to the
Technical Evaluation for further analysis of the ratings.
The ratings of the proposals considering only the Technical Evaluation
areas of Approach and Qualifications are as follows: