Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

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. Making the decision of award will be based on price alone. How much is price worth? will be awarded the contract.

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Bidding IT Price Evaluation 100

SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

SBA’s proposed rule would change HUBZone protests appeals, principal office requirements (which we did discuss a bit before here ), HUBZone map concepts, and the HUBZone price evaluation preference (PEP). PEP (Price Evaluation Preference) Finally, we look at proposed changes to the HUBZone PEP.

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

However, the maintenance shed is not subject to any specific award criteria, although it can be argued it is part of the price criterion. But bearing in mind the lack of specific criteria to assess the shed and that this is not lowest price only tender, the shed itself appears more to be a condition for performance than anything else.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 26, 2024

Government Accountability Office rejected a medical firm's efforts to again upend a pending $44 billion defense contract for professional medical services, saying the Defense Health Agency's revamped evaluation methodology appropriately accounted for bidders' proposed pricing.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 24, 2024

million firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. The Department of Defense said Thursday the Orlando, Florida-based contractor, which won against three other bidders, is expected to complete the project by May 28, Conti Federal Services has secured a $135.5

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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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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. Cost Considerations: Holding these meetings in accessible locations can reduce travel costs for participants, potentially reflecting positively in their bid prices.

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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. However, as is usually the case, there are exceptions. The full list of potential justifications is available at FAR 14.404-1(c).

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Federal News Network

MAY 16, 2024

The majority of federal government procurement is not a set and attacked by bid rigging, price fixing and fraud schemes. And what the OECD tried to do is assess how much money is lost from bid rigging, price fixing and other collusive schemes at the outset from government spending. Dan Glad They are exceptions. Dan Glad Absolutely.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This process includes several crucial steps: tendering by the bidders, bid evaluation by the client and award of the contract to the successful bidder. Customers may select the best offer from submitted tenders based on quality, price, and terms thanks to its transparency, equity, and efficiency of the tender process.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Three times the losing bidder protested. It wasn’t on the pricing. So what what are the lessons learned here then, for bidders? Suppose there had been an organizational conflict of interest in the winning bidder. Three times the CIA awarded a contract for medical services to the same company. Tom Temin Right.

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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. A bid security may be a fixed monetary sum or a percentage of the bid price, usually less than 5%. The bid securing declaration is a non-monetary form of bid security.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 9, 2024

Army made a flawed analysis of bidders' pricing in a contest to provide waste disposal services at a Kansas base, a Court of Federal Claims judge concluded the error would not have disqualified the winning vendor. Although the U.S.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2024

The government, wanting to spend wisely, is often going to choose the lowest bidder. Whether by design or inadvertence, that low bid doesn’t reflect the real price of the work, and soon, the change orders start rolling in. It puts out a call for proposals, and contractors submit their bids for what it would cost them to do the work.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These notable pre-award victories are broken down into three basic categories: (1) unreasonable bidder qualification requirements; (2) unreasonable elimination from competition; and (3) improper solicitation requirements. Notably, half of the successful protests before the COFC in FY23 were pre-award protests.

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The Procurement School

JULY 16, 2024

One of the greatest sources of contract disputes is how to handle price increase requests where there is no clear contract language. The best method is an evidence-based approach showing the underlying cause of the price increase. The bidder has the opportunity and the obligation to review the proposed contract before submitting a bid.

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Mercell

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Scoring, especially price scoring 7. Simulate (before engaging with bidders) 8. Worried to defend non-price criteria 3. Will result in higher priced bids 4. Why Best Value? Importance of early procurement involvement 3. How to determine criteria 4. Importance of scale 5. Assigning weights 6.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Even after the reconsideration and eventual award to HomeSafe, the contract was tied up for another year while ARC and a second bidder challenged the re-award before the Court of Federal Claims. The court eventually ruled in DoD and HomeSafe’s favor, but the final legal hurdles weren’t cleared until December 2022.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 3, 2019

When a bidder submits a bid or proposal in response to an invitation for bids or a request for proposals , they need to commit to their bid (this is done on the bid or proposal submission form) and also to how long the bid / proposal can be considered effective (this is what is commonly called the bid or proposal validity period).

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Once the above steps are completed the procurement resource will have identified the type of procurement method, the associated risks and mitigation strategy, RFx scope and deliverables, required disclosures, evaluation criteria and pricing strategy. A mandatory is a mandatory and if a bidder fails it generally cannot proceed further.

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Procurement Bidder Procurement Strategies Evaluation 52

LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

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. However, as is usually the case, there are exceptions. The full list of potential justifications is available at FAR 14.404-1(c).

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

Along with ePS-NDVSB, other bidders may have included Amazon and Granger. GSA said this requirement was to ensure price reasonableness of the services any one company is offering. On top of that, awarding contracts tends to take longer than expected and GSA, had to extend the current three contracts through March.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MARCH 26, 2019

Lowest Responsive Evaluated Bid versus Lowest Priced Bid Newbies to Public Procurement are usually confused when it comes to the difference between lowest responsive evaluated bid and lowest priced bid. Therefore, the bid recommended for contract award may not necessarily be the bid with the lowest read-out price.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

She said GSA developed the acquisition vehicle to focus around whether a company can meet the technical requirements and has a fair and reasonable price. “I Hixson said the other trend that emerged among the questions was around whether OASIS+ was a best-value trade off in the traditional sense.

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Telles.eu

MARCH 23, 2023

One of the funniest lines of argument presented by Transtejo in this regard was claiming lithium had increased 500% and copper 150% so the contract amendment was justified as the final price of the batteries ended up being even slightly lower than the forecast at the time of the original contract, and as such it was not a substantial change.

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 8, 2024

The Corps canceled the IFB citing that all bids were at unreasonable prices and cancellation was in the public interest. 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. million and the amount of funds ($60.4

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion target by using 2015-16 prices as its baseline. Even if prices had not reduced in any year compared with the year before, a saving was reported as long as prices were lower than that of the baseline year. As part of the procurement, bidders were asked to provide contractual savings targets for each year.

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Procureware

DECEMBER 29, 2017

My favorite new features for 2017 include: • API • Approval workflows • Certifications • Connected bid events • Invite unregistered bidders • My Dashboard • PDF reports • Ranked reverse auction • Supplier view of contracts API Long before ProcureWare was developed, we envisioned an application that would easily connect to other business systems.

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Procureware

MAY 3, 2018

But if they aren’t designed properly, RFPs can backfire, leading to low response rates, poor bidder fit or proposals that are time consuming to evaluate. Buyers sometimes feel tempted to be vague in RFPs in the hope it will draw varied and innovative solutions from bidders. Avoid relying on generic boilerplate language.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Identifying what’s valuable The unit price in a procurement procedure is the fundamental variable that B2Gov always strives to provide their clients. Their market studies have identified reference prices ranging from 1 million to 15 million Argentinian pesos (from US$1,119 to $16,840, as of 28 May, 2024). Was it 120, 150 or 200?

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Follow our advice on understanding tender technical requirements, exhibiting your expertise, avoiding common mistakes, and beating out rival bidders for these complex and demanding RFPs. Referrals lend credibility as prequalified bidders provide more lead time and give exclusive tailored insight into client bid expectations.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

It is well updated in the Tender Document about the above metrics based on which the successful bidder will be announced and also the weightage that each one of the criteria holds. The second part involves the financial review of the cost of each tender as compared to the lowest price offered.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 21, 2015

Some of the reasons are: Mistakes in the solicitation ( bid or proposal ) documents Prospective bidders request more time for submission and it is granted Poor response to invitation for bids or call for proposals Unforeseen event such as natural disaster, emergency situation, mass demonstrations, etc.

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Procureware

APRIL 12, 2019

Vancouver also provides a budget estimate and a bidders list. Step 4: Publish a Bidders List A bidders list is like a construction bid’s planholder list; it includes companies that have expressed interest in a specific bid or tender solicitation. Beyond simply posting the winning supplier, it also includes pricing details.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

Following our theoretical framework, we also expect transparency effects to unfold over time with many effects arising through the help of stakeholders – journalists picking up stories based on newly available data, buyers learning about procurement markets or bidder finding new opportunities more efficiently.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Government agency programs like the GSA Schedules provide long-term contracts, allowing businesses to sell commercial products and services at pre-negotiated prices, simplifying the purchasing process. For first-time bidders, preparation costs can range from $80,000 to $130,000.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 30, 2024

Tom Temin Especially in markets where prices are falling. It might be the work you’ve done to prepare for this opportunity to help the government have process improvements as part of that, and the people as well. And we think you need to be broadly focused on changes in the impact on the outcomes in the results.

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