You are trying to determine price reasonableness. Your requirement is using a performance specification and you have five offerors responding to your solicitation. One offer has proposed an approach that is drastically different from the others. This puts his otherwise successful offer significantly out of line with other offers. Under these conditions, which of the following is a true statement?
a) The purchase situation is different from the typical commercial market situation.
b) Award to the lowest apparent offer because he obviously has the better approach.
c) Exclude the drastically different offer from the competitive range and award to the most highly rated offer.
d) Place less weight on competitive pricing relative to other price comparisons.