Discussions & Clarifications

JULY 18, 2024

A recent Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) decision highlights the Small Business Administration’s (“SBA”) regulations relating to agency evaluations of a mentor-protégé joint venture’s past performance and experience, including under the SBA’s joint venture workshare rule.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded 20 companies positions on a potential five-year, $350 million contract to help facilitate evaluations and evidence-building activities in support of the bureaus and offices within the Health Resources and Services Administration.

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GovCon Wire

AUGUST 9, 2024

million award from the Department of Defense for engineering services in support of the Joint Test and Evaluation program. Scientific Research Corp. has secured a potential $116.8 According to a Federal Procurement Data System notice, the award has an initial action obligation worth $3.1

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 18, 2024

This blog post outlines how credit unions can use AWS to evaluate their compliance with Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) requirements. Figure 1 features a high-level architecture for evaluating workloads for FFIEC and NCUA compliance.

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SmallGovCon

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The 2024 NDAA is directing quite a change in past performance evaluations for offerors in Department of Defense acquisitions. The post 2024 NDAA will Update DFARS to Require Evaluation of Small Business Affiliate Past Performance first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 7, 2024

The post 5 Things Procurement Should Consider When Evaluating AI appeared first on Art of Procurement. “2023 was the year of the ‘dabbler.’ We all heard about AI, and we were all playing around with ChatGPT.

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Government Contracts

MAY 2, 2024

Navy decision to tap a competitor for an operations support deal in the Philippines, saying the protest was based on a misunderstanding of cost realism evaluation requirements. Government Accountability Office denied a joint venture's protest of a U.S.

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SmallGovCon

MARCH 14, 2024

SBA regulations dictate how the capabilities, past performance, and experience of a mentor-protégé joint venture will be evaluated. But at the end of the day, what matters is, whether agencies will follow those regulations in their small business set-aside solicitations and evaluations thereunder.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Scale AI and the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office have joined forces to establish a framework for testing and evaluating generative artificial intelligence.

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FedScoop

APRIL 29, 2024

The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a new program to evaluate generative AI and released several draft documents on the use of the technology Monday, as the government hit a milestone on President Joe Biden’s AI executive order. Registration for a pilot of those evaluations opens in May.

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Dan Skinner , head of federal go-to-market at Material Security , began his career nearly three decades ago and has since garnered a wealth of technical and leadership experience.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 7, 2024

The post 5 Things Procurement Should Consider When Evaluating AI with Heather Murray appeared first on Art of Procurement. “2023 was the year of the ‘dabbler.’ We all heard about AI, and we were all playing around with ChatGPT.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 1, 2024

JTS will provide test and evaluation support in areas such as missile and aviation to ensure the safety of new combat weapon Joint Technical Solutions, a joint venture between Astrion and AI Signal Research Inc., has secured a five-year, $910 million contract to provide test and engineering services for the U.S.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 26, 2024

Under the Evaluation of Electric Vehicle Batteries to Enable Directed Energy project, GM Defense will provide a commercial electric vehicle […]

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Scale AI and the Department of Defense's Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office have joined forces to establish a framework for testing and evaluating generative artificial intelligence.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For federal contractors, it is not an exaggeration to say that performance evaluations are the lifeblood of the business. A less-than-satisfactory evaluation in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) affects far more than just the agency’s assessment of performance on a particular project.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 26, 2023

Agencies are re-evaluating telehealth grants because healthcare providers that took advantage of them during the COVID-19 pandemic are, in some cases, struggling to maintain or even use the technologies they bought with the funds.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Education institutions, though, face slightly different decision-making contexts when evaluating which cloud provider to use to host these applications. As you evaluate your choices, carefully assess the history of your options’ practices, and consider which is most likely to work with you to help you accomplish your institution’s objectives.

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Public Contracting Institute

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In a recent protest, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) held that although performance risk was not specifically listed as an evaluation criterion, an agency may always consider risk that is intrinsic to the stated evaluation factors. South Dade A/C and Refrig., B-421406, April 25, 2023.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital twins, or computerized renderings of real-life systems and objects, are now favored by private companies and the government alike to test and gain a deeper understanding without having to make physical modifications, which can be costly and time consuming.

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Public Contracting Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In a solicitation for design-build construction services related to Fort Bragg, NC, Midnight alleged that the evaluation was improper and used unstated evaluation criteria. Midnight asserted that the Corps unreasonably evaluated the awardee’s technical approach as superior due to its inclusion of a conceptual design.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

DECEMBER 13, 2022

For federal contractors, it is not an exaggeration to say that performance evaluations are the lifeblood of the business. A less-than-satisfactory evaluation in the Contractor Performance Assessment Reporting System (CPARS) affects far more than just the agency’s assessment of performance on a particular project.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the digital world, but the U.S. government is still working to understand its role in military use cases. forces, allies

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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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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

JULY 25, 2022

In case you missed it, Sean Milani-nia and I recently hosted a webinar regarding the importance of CPARS performance evaluations for federal contractors. Too often, we encounter contractor comments that are too generic or that fail to include important information that could have resulted in a better evaluation rating.

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Peraton was awarded a $24 million modification to its contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for continued provision of imagery science expertise and infrastructure support.

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 30, 2024

ICF has received three task orders cumulatively worth $33 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the assessment of chemical exposure risks to human health and the environment.

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

The factors on which tenders are evaluated in MEAT assessment are Quality Cost-effectiveness approach Technology Aesthetic and functional characteristics Accessibility Social characteristics Environmental characteristics Innovative characteristics After-sales service and technical assistance Delivery date, process, and period.

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SmallGovCon

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The post COFC: Lapsed SAM Registration During Proposal Evaluations Makes Offeror Ineligible for Award first appeared on SmallGovCon - Government Contracts Law Blog. Looking for the latest government contracting legal news? Sign up for our free monthly newsletter , and follow us on LinkedIn , Twitter and Facebook.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 25, 2019

Price analysis can be considered a stage of bid evaluation depending on the provisions of a legal and regulatory framework. It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 7, 2024

“2023 was the year of the ‘dabbler.’ We all heard about AI, and we were all playing around with ChatGPT.

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Army concluded a squad-level assessment of the latest prototype of Microsoft ’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System. Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division tested the phase 2 IVAS 1.2 prototype for five days starting Jan. 22 at Picatinny Arsenal’s Tactical Behavioral Research Lab in New Jersey.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 6, 2024

Lockheed Martin‘s missiles and fire control business (NYSE: LMT) will assess the potential of integrating enabling technologies into a prototype weapon system as part of a U.S. Army award with a $170.2 million ceiling value. 28, 2027,

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The Defense Health Agency is seeking additional information from industry concerning the Development Multiple Award Contract Reboot. A component of the Defense Healthcare Management System Program Executive Office 3.0

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SmallGovCon

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This is something that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) didn’t address in its evaluation for a procurement, resulting in a successful GAO protest. The non-price factors were evaluated for prior experience, staffing plan, technical approach, management approach, and past performance. But it’s not unlimited.

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Art of Procurement

APRIL 7, 2024

“2023 was the year of the ‘dabbler.’ We all heard about AI, and we were all playing around with ChatGPT.

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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. Thus, deviations from the evaluation requirement could either be material/major or immaterial/minor.

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