[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR15.308]

[Page 258]
 
            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 15--CONTRACTING BY NEGOTIATION--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart 15.3--Source Selection
 
Sec. 15.308  Source selection decision.

    The source selection authority's (SSA) decision shall be based on a 
comparative assessment of proposals against all source selection 
criteria in the solicitation. While the SSA may use reports and analyses 
prepared by others, the source selection decision shall represent the 
SSA's independent judgment. The source selection decision shall be 
documented, and the documentation shall include the rationale for any 
business judgments and tradeoffs made or relied on by the SSA, including 
benefits associated with additional costs. Although the rationale for 
the selection decision must be documented, that documentation need not 
quantify the tradeoffs that led to the decision.