Government Contract Insights

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This month, we feature three bid protest decisions—two from the U.S. Though each of these decisions focuses on a different fundamental point of procurement law, all share a common theme: they pertain to agency awards of indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (“IDIQ”) contract vehicles or task orders thereunder.

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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The proposed design-build/design-bid-build, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will have a five-year base period and an option term of three years

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Army Contracting Command received 18 bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and will determine work locations and budget upon the issuance of each order, the Department of Defense said Wednesday. The awardees are:

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The SBA size and socioeconomic recertification rules are convoluted — especially in situations where a small business becomes a large business by virtue of an M&A transaction and wants to continue bidding on orders under a multiple-award contract.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Defense said Thursday DISA conducted a competitive online solicitation for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and received three bids. CACI has received a potential five-year, $38.5

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. The Naval Research Laboratory conducted an online procurement process for the award and received one bid, the Department of Defense said Thursday. Small business company Applied Technology has won a one-year, $90.5

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

DECEMBER 6, 2023

As contracting activities are busy awarding new contracts, it is important to follow the trends related to successful and effective protests as you consider filing your own bid protest, or as you defend your award as an intervenor. Below we dive into recent bid protest decisions and identify what won, what did not win, and why.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 27, 2024

City and county governments are often key buyers of landscape equipment and supplies, says Keith McGinty , director of bids and government accounts at SiteOne Landscape Supply , a firm that sells soil maintenance products, irrigation, lighting, nursery products, tools, equipment, safety items and hardscapes in addition to landscape supplies.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this month's bid protest roundup, Michaela Thornton at MoFo examines three recent protests resolved in the U.S. Government Accountability Office that arose from indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract awards and offer important reminders about the fundamentals of procurement law. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 23, 2023

Bid Protests: GAO’s Loser Pays Pilot Program Once again, a “loser pays” bid protest pilot program has appeared in the NDAA, which would require contractors to reimburse DoD for costs incurred in “processing” bid protests that are ultimately denied by the Government Accountability Office.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 8, 2024

The Air Force Research Laboratory received one bid for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via a competitive acquisition, the

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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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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. He said GSA disqualified his company around three deficiencies, even after submitting a bid, going through a live demonstration and going back and forth with email questions and answers during the fall.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Army Contracting Command received two bids for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract via the internet and will determine work locations and budget with individual orders, the Department of Defense said Monday. Amtec, a National Defense Corp. company, will supply high-velocity training rounds to the U.S. million contract.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Thirteen companies have secured spots on a potential $249 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide military facility construction and demolition services to the U.S. will perform design-build or design-bid-build tasks supporting construction, renovation and repair projects at multiple government installations,

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 8, 2024

million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. The Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Southwest conducted a competitive procurement process for the award and received six bids, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 12, 2024

Space Command’s Joint Navigation Warfare Center under a $450 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Space Acquisition Integration Office at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado received five bid offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate $14.3

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Federal Construction Contracting

JUNE 5, 2023

Infotrend ), the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a request for proposal for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity government-wide acquisition contracts for IT services, known as Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners (CIO-SP4).

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GovSpend

JUNE 18, 2024

GovSpend’s platform allows you to create lead lists based on agency location, agency types, spending thresholds, quantities, expiring contracts, upcoming renewals, and other criteria: Expiring Contracts and Subscriptions : Filter your search by issue date to find contracts that are due for rjenewal.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 19, 2023

After two years of planning, meetings, feedback and answering almost 900 questions about the final solicitations, vendors’ bids are due tomorrow. That’s a pretty unique feature of this indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract. I’m not really sure that message has really gotten out completely.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Ernst said she believes her bill, the Conforming Procedures for Federal Task and Delivery Order Contracts Act , will let agencies push reviews of cost back to the task order level where it belongs. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) speaks on the Senate floor.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Peregrine) and compete the second part, worth $43 million, for 8(a) participants to bid on. It would sole source the first part to 8(a) participant Peregrine Advisors Benefit, Inc. The first part in 2022 went through without issue.

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GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

The agenda promised insights into vendor verification, sourcing new vendors, validating pricing against historical purchase orders, market research, and tailoring bids and RFQs for success. Verifying Vendors for Credibility and Reliability: The first topic covered was the crucial process of vendor verification.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

A formal call for bids on a project, known as a tender, initiates the bidding process among prospective contractors. This process includes several crucial steps: tendering by the bidders, bid evaluation by the client and award of the contract to the successful bidder. What is a Tender Document in Construction?

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Select GCR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Selecting the appropriate contracts to bid on is key. It’s better to focus on opportunities that align with your expertise rather than bidding on every contract available. These include Indefinite Delivery and Quantity Contracts (IDIQ) and Incentive Contracts, each with its applications and nuances.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

For those unfamiliar with Seaport-NxG, it is both a set of Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) MACs and the platform used by the Navy to solicit, award, and administer task orders under those IDIQ MACs. Department of the Navy awarded Forward Slope a place on the Seaport-NxG Multiple Award Contract (MAC).

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PNWC's Government Contracting Update

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This could reduce the number of bid protests because sometimes, information secured through a bid protest is the only way for offerors to fully understand why they were not selected for a particular contract. Finally, don't expect a comparative analysis of your offers with other offers or with the winning offers.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This solicitation was for a task order offered under a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract, meaning the offerors were already awarded indefinite duration, indefinite quantity contracts with products that the agency would then solicit for task orders.

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DemandStar

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Are you a government procurement agent who needs to store a large quantity of excess equipment? Find a Place (and a Partner) for Your Excess Equipment appeared first on DemandStar | Government Contract Bids, RFPs & Procurement. What unique solutions have you found to your storage needs? The post Need Storage?

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The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Until recently, public owners have relied on a common approach of drafting conceptual drawings, commissioning quantity surveys, and buffering their budgets to allow for a percentage contingency. Collective agreements offer some predictability, but lump sum tendered bids often must guess the future and buffer to avoid loss.

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aptac

JUNE 22, 2018

For inexperienced players, it can be chaotic, confusing, and cut-throat, as informal subcontracting agreements are made on the ground which may not be enforceable and third-party firms falsely promise no-bid contracts to those who pay big bucks to be on a “priority vendors list” (there is no such list).

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

31] If there are any significant variances between baseline and bidding rates or rate agreements, determine the cause and whether the contractor failed to disclose any known data. [32] Document the rationale for any changes in type or quantity of material used in performance. to determine if any data were not adequately disclosed. [43]

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 19, 2024

Principle is of another small business unless those products are not available in sufficient quantities. How does the SBA verify that there actually is no one to bid on a particular contract? Yes, the non-manufacturing rule permits the small business set asides to provide products.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

JANUARY 21, 2020

the quantity and depth of new information) and whether new information is actionable for key stakeholders such as bidding firms; and (ii) the nature of demand for transparency, that is the existence of data users who are willing and able to act upon the information published. However, the average number of received bids increases by 0.5

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Public Contracting Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The solicitation stated that offerors who failed to provide Attachment 9 would result in their proposal being deemed noncompliant with the solicitation, and not considered for award.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The solicitation stated that offerors who failed to provide Attachment 9 would result in their proposal being deemed noncompliant with the solicitation, and not considered for award.

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