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with sound management, quality control, capacity, experience, financial resources, and ethics to perform its contract. LCRA reserves the right to employ a variety of means to determine the responsibility of potential contractors. 7. Discussions with Responsible Offerors and Revisions to Proposal. Discussions may be conducted individually with responsible Offerors for the purpose of clarification or to assure full understanding of, and responsiveness to, the solicitation requirement. LCRA reserves the right to determine when and with whom to conduct discussions. As a result of such discussions, revisions may be permitted after initial submissions and prior to award for the purpose of obtaining best and final offers. In conducting discussions, LCRA shall not disclose to an Offeror any information derived from proposals submitted by competing Offerors. The purpose of such discussions may include: (a) Investigation in greater detail of an Offeror's qualifications; (b) Exploration with the Offeror of the scope, schedule, and nature of the proposed project, the Offeror's proposed method of performance, and the relative utility of alternative methods of approach; (c) Establishment of the experience and availability of personnel and facilities necessary to perform within the required time; and (d) Review of the Offeror's proposed compensation and opportunities for savings, taking into account the nature, scope, schedule, and complexity of proposed project; and (e) price, and other aspects of value. LCRA may award a contract directly from proposals without any discussions, or may conduct discussions with one Offeror or simultaneous discussion with multiple Offerors, so it is in the best interest of all Offerors to submit competitive offers, and to keep their best offers "on the table" at all times. 8. Addenda. Nothing in the instructions shall limit LCRA's right to issue addenda to the RFP prior to proposal opening. 9. Confidential Information. The LCRA is subject to the Texas Public Information Act. Any information submitted to the LCRA by an Offeror shall be available to the public, unless it is clearly marked "CONFIDENTIAL". If another party requests access to information marked confidential, then LCRA shall ask the Offeror if the information may be released. If the release is agreed to, LCRA shall release the information. If the release is denied, the matter shall be referred to the Texas Attorney General's Office where the Offeror shall be responsible for substantiating its confidentiality. The Attorney General's office shall rule on the matter. Pricing information contained in proposals or contracts is not considered confidential under the PIA and will be disclosed without making a request to the Texas Attorney General. 10. Evaluation Criteria. Proposals will be evaluated based on the following criteria (not in order of precedence): (a) Pricing; (b) Qualifications with respect to LCRA's demonstrated needs; (c) Compliance with RFP instructions; (d) Ability to furnish what LCRA solicited; (e) Offeror's quality control and quality assurance program; (f) Ability to meet LCRA's schedule; (g) Number and nature of exceptions to Terms and Conditions; (h) References; (i) Offeror's commitment to LCRA's foundation values; and 0) Offeror's financial capacity to perform, when requested. 11. References. If LCRA has experience with your firm and you do not list LCRA as a reference, LCRA reserves the right to use past experience for this proposal. 12. Approvals. Contracts with the LCRA that exceed $2,000,000 (either initially or through a change order) must be approved by the LCRA Board of Directors before they become effective. Consulting contracts that exceed $50,000 (either initially or through a change order) must be approved by the LCRA Board of Directors before they become effective. Change orders to contracts must be approved by the LCRA Board of Directors if they exceed $2,000,000 ($50,000 for consulting contracts), either separately or in the aggregate. Change orders must be executed by an authorized LCRA Authorized Agent General Services RFP LR Revised 09/15/08 Contract #TBD Page 3