The Census Bureau award decision was based on best value principles. Accordingly, the award will be made to the most innovative, cost efficient and comprehensive technically acceptable Offeror whose proposal provided the greatest overall value to the Government, price and other factors considered. The best value determination will be accomplished by comparing the value of the differences in the technical factors for competing offers, based on their strengths, weaknesses, and risks, with differences in their price to the Government. In making this comparison, the Government is more concerned with obtaining superior technical and management capabilities than with making an award at the lowest overall cost to Government. However, the Government will not make an award at significantly higher overall price to the Government to achieve slightly superior technical skills. Our goal is to find a technically adequate way to satisfy the needs of the agency.