There's a perception that industry is constantly trying to milk the public sector for funding. Vendor performance allows you to evaluate based on performance in past projects, and that should be taken into account when you're doing an assessment of a future project. The way we go about it now is that there is no vendor performance evaluation, so the same company that has potentially milked the government six or seven times gets a fair chance at bidding for the next one. If he has the lowest price, he wins.
On February 13th, 2018. See this statement in context.