California's "Global Warming Solutions Act" of 2006

Proposals submitted under this Request for Proposals (RFP) will be evaluated by the “secondary” method. In the secondary method, the contract award is based on the highest score given to a proposal by an evaluation committee using the established rating criteria (Table 1). The cost of the proposed research is the highest weighted criterion, although not the determining factor. This means that the lowest cost bid will not necessarily be awarded the contract.