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. 4106(f)(1) and 10 U.S.C. 3406f(2).

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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. Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog © 2018 by Michael E.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Mexico City has devised an efficient, participatory, and transparent approach to seek input from potential suppliers and the public on draft contracting documents before a formal call to tender is announced.

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Collaboration E-procurement Tender Bidding 57

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." Mike Purdy's Public Contracting Blog © 2015 by Michael E. Purdy Associates, LLC - [link]

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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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Federal News Network

JULY 10, 2024

Conflicts of interest in federal contracting can happen in a lot of ways. So analyzing data generated from other CMS contracts, among other things. Tom Temin Right, so now, nobody has the contract while CMS figures out what to do. And it may have scuttled the deal. Tom Temin All right. Zach Prince That’s right.

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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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Public Procurement Procurement Bidder Bidding 95

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Protests of contracts went down last fiscal year. The micro-purchase threshold, the simplified acquisition threshold, the 8(a) sole source contract ceiling and several other similar acquisition limits are likely to increase in 2025. Source: GAO Bid Protest Report to Congress for Fiscal 2024.

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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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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This guide breaks down the crucial steps: identifying contracting opportunities, understanding procurement processes, and building relationships with government buyers. Dive in to learn strategies that can help you secure lucrative government contracts. Want to start selling to governments but dont know where to begin?

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Government Accountability Office recently upheld the protest of a contract award from the Defense Intelligence Agency. It used a slightly unconventional approach to evaluating bidders. But then, of course, you’ve already made your bid. The agency doesn’t have to let you change your bid.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Listen carefully and you can hear the buzz in the federal market about a new contract from the General Services Administration. It’s not another big governmentwide contract like Alliant 3 or the ASCEND cloud blanket purchase agreement. The pool of bidders is going to be huge.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

With a grant from the Open Government Partnership, WeSolve and Move As One reviewed 12 publicly available contracts with the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) website. Competition: A total of 14 unique contractors bid on the projects.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 26, 2024

The protester, Percipient, had not bid. And so at most, it could act as a prospective subcontractor, but it couldn’t prime contract the work with the government. This was relating to an IDIQ contract. So CICA by the way is Competition in Contracting Act. Tom Temin: Right. So what did that court decide?

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Whether Congress passes a 2024 budget or not, federal agencies will continue to engage in contracting. That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. And after amending the solicitation 16 times, the agency received proposals from 1,150 bidders. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled.

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Contract Bidder Bidding Evaluation 87

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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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) gives contracting officers significant flexibility in selecting the procurement method they choose to use. these parts require full and open competition, full and open competition after exclusion of sources and other than full and open competition, respectively] (a) Sealed bids.

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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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USFCR

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Federal Viper Program offers an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to step in and make a difference while securing lucrative federal contracts. The Federal Viper Program is a specialized initiative aimed at simplifying the contracting process for wildfire relief efforts. What Is the Federal Viper Program?

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SmallGovCon

MAY 29, 2024

That is, you have to show that there was a substantial chance you would have received contract award if not for the agency’s mistake. 2024) , REV, LLC (REV) was a bidder on the VA’s Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology-Next Generation (T4NG) program. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? In REV, LLC v.

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Bidder Government Contracts Bidding Evaluation 105

Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

29, and addition of a new (yet to be known major or minor) character, Eric Mill, as executive director for cloud strategy in GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, and the ongoing story arc of the status of several new governmentwide contracts. 23 when the current contracts with Amazon, Fischer Scientific and Overstock expired.

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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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Federal News Network

MAY 29, 2024

First of all, it’s a one-year contract with nine one-year options, and it was awarded in September of 2022. They’re not actually terminating the contract. You know, this is the type of contract that’s under the service contract agreement. So, it’s not even two years ago, right? Tom Temin Yeah.

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SmallGovCon

MAY 8, 2024

” A contracting officer has “nearly unlimited discretion to exclude bidders for appearance of impropriety” and the decision must be based on “reasonable factual predicates” and not be irrational. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Give us a call at 785-200-8919.

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Contract Procurement Bidder Government Contracts 111

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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SmallGovCon

APRIL 19, 2024

Indeed, it has long been SBA’s position that they can only consider tax returns, as noted in Nordstrom Contracting & Consulting Corp., Bid Solve, Inc. At first, the matter was simple enough: CWS Marketing Group’s (CWS) size was protested, it submitted its tax returns, and SBA sided with CWS over the protester, Bid Solve, Inc.

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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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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. The defense is among those listed at FAR 14.404-1 and it is logical that an agency cannot award contracts that exceed available funding.

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

And then finally, I think I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the people who are really there the procurement officers, the contracting officers, the people in government whose day-to-day job is buying stuff. The majority of federal government procurement is not a set and attacked by bid rigging, price fixing and fraud schemes.

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How to Crack a Nut

JULY 1, 2024

I am reading a leaflet for a contract management portal when I overhear a conversation between a buyer and a supplier. “I I suppose at this rate, you could just get AI to write all your bids for you?” If a bid is incorrectly evaluated, the buyer can hardly hold the AI response generator accountable. says a buyer.

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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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Bidder Bidding Evaluation Contract 52

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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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

MARCH 22, 2022

Department of Defense (DOD) has just locked in its Enhanced Postaward Debriefing procedures, making it easier for contractors to understand the source selection and contract award process and make informed bid protest decisions. Critically, enhanced debriefing procedures also grant the contractor more time to submit a bid protest.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

Increasing pressure from the industry about the lack of clarity of the SEWP VI solicitation has forced NASA to hit a pause on its governmentwide acquisition contract. “I have never seen in my career a contract or IDIQ have this many questions. “There is a lot of ambiguity in this procurement in a number of areas.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Friday is the end of the beginning for the General Services Administration’s years’ long effort to develop the OASIS+ professional services contract. After two years of planning, meetings, feedback and answering almost 900 questions about the final solicitations, vendors’ bids are due tomorrow.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The Army wants to create a huge new ID/IQ contract to modernize the way it buys and builds software — and it’s not wasting any time. It’s going to be a tight turnaround for potential bidders to submit their comments on the Army’s latest draft, issued on Oct. 11; the deadline is this Friday. I have zero patience.

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