---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 C.F.R. § 2415.304"
title: "48"
number: "2415.304"
heading: "Evaluation factors and significant subfactors."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/48/2415.304"
---

# §2415.304. Evaluation factors and significant subfactors.

- (c)
  - (3)
    - (i) The extent of participation of small businesses in performance of the contract, whether as a joint venture, teaming arrangement, or subcontractor, shall be addressed in the source selection for contracts to be awarded using the tradeoff source selection process (see FAR 15.101-1) that require the use of the clause at FAR 52.219-9, Small Business Subcontracting Plan.
- (d) The solicitation shall state the basis for the source selection decision as either the “lowest price technically acceptable” (LPTA) process or the dquo;tradeoff” process (as defined at FAR [subpart 15.1](/cfr/48/subpart15.1.md)).

## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 73527, Dec. 10, 2012]

### Authority

Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 41 U.S.C. 3301-3306 and 3105; 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 49 FR 7703, Mar. 1, 1984, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[77 FR 73527, Dec. 10, 2012]