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5 <br />ARTICLE VII. <br />EVALUATION CRITERIA <br /> Section 7.01 DRAFTING. The Evaluation Team will be responsible for drafting Evaluation Criteria. During drafting, the Evaluation Team, in its sole discretion, may seek information and assistance from outside technical, financial, legal, engineering, and project <br />management consultants or advisors. <br /> <br />Section 7.02 EVALUATION CRITERIA CONSIDERATIONS. The Evaluation Team, in its <br />sole discretion, will develop specific criteria to assess each Proposer’s management, technical, <br />and financial qualifications and capabilities and any other criteria that the Evaluation Team <br />deems applicable. The Evaluation Team will assign a maximum number of points which a Proposer can obtain for management, technical, and financial qualifications and capabilities and for any other considerations deemed applicable by the Evaluation Team. <br /> <br />ARTICLE VIII. <br />EVALUATION OF STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS <br /> Section 8.01 OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS AND ADVISORS. The Evaluation Team may <br />solicit, in its sole discretion, information and assistance from outside consultants and advisors <br />during the evaluation process. <br /> Section 8.02 SUBMISSIONS. The Evaluation Team may, in its sole discretion, terminate evaluations of SOQs received at any time, reject any and all SOQs received at any <br />time, disqualify Proposers, waive deficiencies in an SOQ, accept and review a non-conforming <br />SOQ, permit clarifications or additional information to be submitted with respect to an SOQ, <br />require confirmation of information submitted in an SOQ, require additional information <br />concerning an SOQ, require additional evidence of qualifications to perform the work described in the RFQ, or reserve any other rights that it deems appropriate. <br /> <br />Section 8.03 SCORING BASED ON EVALUATION CRITERIA. The Proposers will be <br />ranked based upon the scores received during the evaluation pursuant to the Evaluation Criteria, <br />with the highest-ranked Proposer receiving the most points. <br />Section 8.04 EVALUATION TEAM CONTACT. At any time during the SOQ evaluation <br />process, the Evaluation Team or its outside consultants or advisors may, within the Evaluation <br />Team’s sole discretion, (a) submit written questions or requests for clarifications to the Proposer <br />regarding its SOQ or related matters, (b) contact references included in the SOQ, or (c) visit facilities and clients associated with any Proposer that are included in the SOQ. The Evaluation <br />Team may also require that all or a limited number of Proposers participate in interviews. <br /> <br />ARTICLE IX. SHORT LIST Section 9.01 SHORT LIST OF PROPOSERS. The Short List will consist of the three (3) or <br />four (4) Proposers who received the highest scores during the evaluation by the Evaluation <br />Team. DRAFT