Proposal exhibits less-than-solid fit to Postal Service quality control standards and risk management plan; likely to cause significant disruption of schedule, increased cost, or degradation of performance. Risk may be unacceptable, even with special supplier effort and close Postal Service monitoring.
Proposal exhibits solid fit to Postal Service quality control standards and risk management plan; can potentially cause some disruption of schedule, increased costs, or degradation of performance. Special supplier effort and close Postal Service monitoring will probably be able to overcome difficulties.
Proposal exhibits excellent fit to Postal Service quality control standards and risk management plan; has little potential to cause disruption of schedule, increased costs, or degradation of performance. Normal supplier effort and normal Postal Service monitoring will probably be able to overcome difficulties.
A risk assessment rating of “medium” or “high” may signal an overall lack of fit with client requirements and can negatively impact the technical evaluation. Certain risk factors may lead to risks that may result in consequences that will affect the technical rating. For example, an unrealistically low staffing level for the project can mean work overload per resource assigned and consequently result in inferior quality of the end product(s).
