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. Click here to read Mr. DeVries brief blog post on this court case.

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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. If you have any questions about GAO jurisdiction or the bid protest rules, please contact the author.

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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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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

What's the difference between a Bid and a Proposal, or between an Invitation to Bid and a Request for Proposals (RFP)? Invitation to Bid: Public agencies that issue an Invitation to Bid (or a Request for a Quote) have defined a specific scope of work for which they are requesting bid prices.

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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.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 4, 2024

Throughout my career as a procurement practitioner, I have never seen bids submitted that are perfectly responsive to the evaluation criteria or requirements specified in the solicitation documents. Also, such a decision must not create an unfair advantage of one bidder against the others in the competition.

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Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

Would the subcontractor have known about what’s going on, because it probably would have, because don’t subcontractors know when they’re part of a team that is bidding by the prime for a new contract? What happens in these situations when you have too close bidders. It was this wider set of data. Pun intended.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It used a slightly unconventional approach to evaluating bidders. And we should also point out that the dark horse initially winning bidder was slightly higher priced than secure offense, not a whole lot more, but half a million dollars or so. But then, of course, you’ve already made your bid.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Government Accountability Office’s annual report to Congress on the state of bid protests always is fascinating. Source: GAO Bid Protest Report to Congress for Fiscal 2024. Let’s get back to GAO’s bid protest report. These are the latest among a host of story lines in the federal acquisition community.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I also think a lot of companies under COMET didn’t have capabilities to bid back in 2019,” said Gissa Sateri, the director of the civilian business unit at SAIC. “I The pool of bidders is going to be huge. Vendors must bid on the BPA, but don’t have to necessarily bid on all five task orders.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 19, 2024

Differences Between Pre-Bid and Pre-Proposal Meetings Purpose of Clarification: Both pre-bid and pre-proposal meetings are held to explain the details of the solicitation documents to interested parties. Differences Between Pre-Bid and Pre-Proposal Meetings 1. Differences Between Pre-Bid and Pre-Proposal Meetings 1.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

APRIL 17, 2017

Unlike the payment/performance bond waiver provision applicable only for Limited Public Works Projects (Small Works Roster projects less than $35,000), this provision in RCW 39.08.010 does not require that the project less than $35,000 be bid through the Small Works Roster process.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 26, 2024

The protester, Percipient, had not bid. The post What happens when a company that didn’t bid files an award protest? In a long-running case, a vendor of computer vision software protested a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency award to systems integrator CACI, which was going to develop its own computer vision software.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

APRIL 24, 2016

During the bidding process, it is customary to require interested bidders to provide a bid security or bid securing declaration along with their bid. What is a bid security? A bid security may be a fixed monetary sum or a percentage of the bid price, usually less than 5%.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 3, 2019

What is bid validity? For the sake of simplicity and to avoid unnecessary repetition, we will refer from this point forward only to “ bid validity ”, but it must be understood that we are referring to the validity of a bidder’s offer , be it a bid or a proposal. What is the bid validity period used for?

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 16, 2025

New suppliers are entering the market and bidding more actively too. The average number of bidders per lot rose from 3.16 Procurement from a single source was allowed only in the absence of two or more suitable bids at the second stage, and this measure did not apply to requests for quotations. on average in 2021 to 10.23

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

FAR 6.401 (Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals) states: Sealed bidding [using an Invitation for Bids-IFB] and competitive proposals [using a Request for Proposals-RFP], as described in [FAR] parts 14 and 15 , are both acceptable procedures for use under subparts 6.1 , 6.2 ; and, when appropriate, under subpart 6.3

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

FAR 52.214-16, Minimum Bid acceptance Period: the contracting officer inserts a time period in that clause, similar to Form 33 above; or A time period set forth somewhere else in the text of the solicitation. Apparently, Global was the low responsive bid. The agency made award to the next-lowest bidder at its bid price.

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Government Contracts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Starting these relationships before a bid or RFP is released can significantly enhance your chances of success. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) provides guidance on the rules and procedures for filing bid protests. When a low bid from a small business is rejected by a federal contracting officer , the situation is escalated.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JULY 12, 2015

What are pre-bid meetings? Pre-bid meetings are gatherings scheduled after an invitation for bids or request for proposals is advertised. They are called pre-bid meetings because they are pertinent to procurement of goods , non-consultant services and works. What is the purpose of pre-bid meetings?

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Government Contracts

MARCH 10, 2025

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. Government Accountability Office has sustained a protest over a $19.9

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

It is based on years of experience from practicing Public and Project Procurement and takes into consideration bid evaluation procedures and practices applicable under several Public and Project Procurement legal and regulatory frameworks. Bid evaluation is the responsibility of a body known as the Bid Evaluation Panel.

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Oles Morrison

AUGUST 24, 2022

Oles Morrison Rinker & Baker is beyond thrilled at the success of our government contracts practice group Bid Protest Webinar 2022. Bid Protests are an important weapon in a contractor’s arsenal, whether as a successful awardee or disappointed bidder.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

Competition: A total of 14 unique contractors bid on the projects. All except one contract (Metro Manila) had multiple bidders. million by having multiple bidders. Seven suppliers were awarded contracts. Over 50% of the total award value (PHP 573 million) was awarded to one supplier (Philippine Chemsteel Industries, Inc).

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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. The bid process consisted of two steps before a competitive range of potential awardees was chosen. We explore that here. In REV, LLC v. United States, Aptive Res., 4th 1156, 1159 (Fed.

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Government Contracts

APRIL 9, 2025

Army Corps of Engineers has awarded 15 construction companies out of 35 bidders slots on a$7 billion contract for design-build and design-bid-build horizontal construction task orders.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. Dan Ramish Yes, this procurement was very notable for the number of big protests, so many protests that set new records and broke the GAO’s bid protests statistics for the year. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled. Dan Ramish Yeah.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

JANUARY 3, 2024

The general rule ( FAR 14.404-1(a) ) is that – once a solicitation is put out for bid – the agency must award the contract to the responsible bidder with the lowest responsive bid. This defense is only available where the agency can show that the bids received were unreasonably high.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Foes are vanquished, in this case Boston Consulting Group, losing its OASIS+ bid protest at the Government Accountability Office. Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. It’s clear that they misevaluated our bid. GAO also said no other vendor filed a protest and BCG did bid on OASIS+ in the end.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

I suppose at this rate, you could just get AI to write all your bids for you?” This elicited a defensive reply from the supplier: “and you could write the tender documents and evaluate all of the bids using AI without ever reading them!” If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable.

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The Procurement School

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Step 3 Posting Once the procurement document is developed and approved it is posted online for bidders to respond. In instances, such as a limited number of potential bidders, a complex procurement or a new or innovative concept a procurement may be posted longer to attract more bidders.

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The Procurement School

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Author: Helen Doucette “Accept the bid from ABC Company” said the VP of Finance to the Director of Procurement. “I According to the Competitive Bidding Law of Canada, we can only accept compliant bids. Had the Director accepted the late bid, their reputation would be tarnished forever. I cannot” replied the Director. “Why

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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

In one place, the RFP makes it clear that the solicitor, the bidder, should have a labor harmony agreement in place before the contract starts. In another place, the RFP requires that the winning bidder would entertain negotiations with an interested union if they raised it after the contract is in place. It’s not the government.

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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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Florida Government Contracts

MARCH 4, 2019

18, 2019) that prospective bidders have standing to file bid protests challenging out-of-scope modifications to existing government contracts. Florida’s First District Court of Appeals just held in Asphalt Paving Sys., Anderson Columbia, No. 1D18-2035 (Fla. 1st DCA Feb.

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Government Contracts

JULY 29, 2024

Department of the Interior misattributed the contractor's bid for a $6.9 million janitorial contract to an ineligible affiliate, saying the submission identified the contractor as the bidder only once. Government Accountability Office has rejected a contractor's claims that the U.S.

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