Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 30, 2017

This is a follow-up to my recent blog posting about the new Washington state law adding compliance with the state's minimum wage laws as a mandatory bidder responsibility criterion. The bidder would then just sign one document. The revision to RCW 39.04.350 requires compliance with RCW 9A.72.085

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Government Contracts

MAY 13, 2024

Air Force flight training contract, when the service branch never indicated it would check if bidders' prices were realistic. Government Accountability Office said an aviation company couldn't question the feasibility of a rival's $159 million U.S.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders. Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise. It contains questions on both exclusion and selection criteria.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 30, 2025

million task order for medical auditing services to the two lowest-priced bidders. A Court of Federal Claims judge has ruled that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reasonably limited its final best-value choice on a $40.8

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 4, 2024

A minor deviation would be declared on a requirement if it does not result in a disadvantage against the procurement entity such as reducing the quality of the required goods , works or service, or violate the rights of other bidders. Minor deviations are a subtle area that requires clear guidelines to ensure fairness and transparency.

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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 1, 2024

Black & Veatch-Jacobs JV beat out one other bidder to win the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the […]

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Key Functions of Standard Bidding Documents Standard bidding documents serve several critical functions: Instructions for Bidders : They guide potential bidders on how to prepare and submit their bids. Invitation to Bid : They formally invite potential bidders to submit their bids.

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Department of Transportation is seeking bidders to provide project management oversight services to the Federal Transit Administration.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

APRIL 17, 2017

Additional Mandatory Bidder Responsibility Criterion: Senate Bill 5301 adds to the list of mandatory bidder responsibility criteria in RCW 39.04.350 that public agencies must check on and validate prior to awarding any public works project. The new criterion relates to the contractor's compliance with the state's minimum wage laws.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 21, 2025

The GAO’s bid protest regulations define “intervenor” as: “an awardee if the award has been made or, if no award has been made, all bidders or offerors who appear to have a substantial prospect of receiving an award if the protest is denied.” First, what even is an intervenor in a GAO bid protest?

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

All except one contract (Metro Manila) had multiple bidders. million by having multiple bidders. Reyes used it to create his own visualizations about the contracts, including a map of bike lane contracts in Metro Manila, a network analysis of bidders and contracts, and an itemized breakdown of the components of each contract.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 28, 2024

Army Contracting Command has issued a request for proposal for accounting and auditing support services for the Army Financial Improvement Program.

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Government Contracts

MARCH 10, 2025

Government Accountability Office has sustained a protest over a $19.9 million National Institutes of Health software development task order, finding the NIH unreasonably treated similar aspects of the protester's and awardee's bids differently.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The Government Accountability Office rejected a Virginia-based contractor's challenge to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's denial of its $74 million security screening contract proposal, saying it was not prejudiced by the agency's "latent ambiguity" in its solicitation.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Government Accountability Office has backed the Defense Logistics Agency excluding a company from a solicitation for deployment of disaster relief generators, saying the DLA reasonably found conflicts of interest involving the company's work on a related contract.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest over the U.S. Army reinstating the eventual awardee of a $42.3 million logistics support deal after initially finding the company's bid unacceptable, saying the Army's discussions with the awardee were reasonable.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 8, 2025

A federal watchdog swatted down a company's challenge of a $107 million task order that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued to another business, rejecting arguments that the government failed to fairly evaluate its own proposal.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The pool of bidders is going to be huge. More details out for bidders GSA recently gave vendors more details about its plans for COMET II, releasing another draft of the performance work statement as well as the drafts of how they will evaluate bids. Previously, GSA chose small businesses for about 25% of all awards.

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Telles.eu

DECEMBER 20, 2023

If the administrative court allows the contract to go ahead, then the interest of the bidders to carry on challenging the decision is significantly reduced since what they stand to obtain at the end of the legal proceedings is nowhere as enticing as delivering the contract itself. The second variable is the claimants legal strategy.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 29, 2024

2024) , REV, LLC (REV) was a bidder on the VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology-Next Generation (T4NG) program. In a recent decision by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, it appears that the COFC will have to give protesters a good bit of benefit of the doubt on this question going forward. We explore that here. In REV, LLC v.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

MAY 24, 2018

Tennessee construction attorney Matthew DeVries has described the outcome of an Alabama court case in which a bidder left out the word "thousand" in a bid price and was held to the significantly lower bid amount by the public agency.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 12, 2024

White House Reveals Better Contracting Initiative Procedures for reporting on veteran-owned small businesses need improvement, according to GAO GSA finds federal tech accessibility challenges driven by lack of staff, resources Federal Real Property: Improved Data and Access Needed for Employees with Disabilities Using Secure Facilities SBA Marks One-Year (..)

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Government Contracts

MARCH 18, 2025

million Army training contract, saying the protester waived its chance to dispute the Army's failure to conduct discussions with bidders by not filing that argument earlier. A Court of Federal Claims judge has denied a protest over a $408.7

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Most public agencies have developed standard language for public works construction bid documents that includes Instructions to Bidders, the Contract, and General Conditions, often referred to as "front end documents."

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 26, 2023

From this date, public bodies in Scotland will be required to treat bidders from the Republic of North Macedonia equally to bidders from the UK in their procurements covered by the UK’s Appendix 1 to the GPA.

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Scottish Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Procurement Journey Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Supplier Journey What Do Bidders Need to Know About Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Supplier Journey The responsible use of AI is permitted in the procurement process by both bidders of Scottish public sector contracts and Buyers, in accordance with their public body’s policies and guidance.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It is an efficient and cost-effective way to consult the market, it ensures a level playing field for all bidders, and allows for contradictions and potential issues to be flagged early in the procurement process. Their comments are all published on the site, along with any responses from the procuring entity.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 19, 2024

Opportunity for Questions: These meetings provide a platform for prospective bidders or consultants to ask questions and seek clarifications. Minutes of the Meeting: The minutes of both pre-bid and pre-proposal meetings are distributed to all potential bidders or consultants who received the solicitation documents.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

MUTUAL NIGHTMARE I suppose the bidder’s response would be that as much as the buyer wants to avoid contracting on scope which does not meet their requirements and still less with a supplier who does not meet the scope, the bidder also does not wish to be tied to contractual commitments as part of their bid that they cannot deliver.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. And after amending the solicitation 16 times, the agency received proposals from 1,150 bidders. Tom Temin It sounds like NIH wanted to create a marketplace with as many bidders as they could fit in. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 29, 2024

Government Accountability Office is supporting the Department of Veterans Affairs' decision to cancel a solicitation that lacked proper instructions to bidders, thereby denying a protest from a Maryland business that had its contract canceled.

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Government Contracts

AUGUST 14, 2024

Air Force information technology deal, saying the winning bidder didn't properly show whether monitors it offered complied with the Trade Agreements Act. Government Accountability Office has sustained an HP Inc. unit's protest over a U.S.

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Government Contracts

JULY 23, 2024

has protested over terms of an Army Corps of Engineers construction contract requiring bidders to enter into a project labor agreement, mandated by regulation, saying the PLA requirement violates a competitive contracting law. Hensel Phelps Construction Co.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On December 21, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest by ELS, an unsuccessful bidder on a Department of Defense (DOD) task order opportunity, concluding that it did not have jurisdiction to consider it. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000.

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Government Contracts

JULY 29, 2024

million contract to support the National Institutes of Health, unconvinced that the agency had revealed a bidder's proprietary information during a Zoom call with the eventual contract winner. Government Accountability Office has refused to undo a $25.3

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

million NASA space technology development contract, saying the winning bidder was reasonably determined to be an eligible small business and that NASA fairly evaluated bids for the deal. A Court of Federal Claims judge has rejected a protest over a $282.2

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A Court of Federal Claims judge denied IntelliBridge LLC's attempt to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from seeking bidders for its hybrid cloud product engineering and operations contract, finding on Tuesday the agency isn't trying to replicate its batCAVE software.

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