GovCon Wire

MAY 6, 2024

The Department of Defense said Friday the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base period valued at Navy has awarded seven companies spots on a potential 10-year, $2.67 territories.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 22, 2024

The solicitation is for a multiple award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite quantity basic contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price task orders, according to a SAM.gov notice published […]

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 3, 2024

Navy's cargo offload and discharge systems under a firm-fixed-price contract. The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Florida, launched a competitive procurement process for the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and received one offer, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 16, 2024

Transportation Command has awarded 25 companies spots on a fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with an estimated cumulative face value of $750 million. The contract seeks to provide commercial port operations and related transportation services, the Department of Defense said Monday.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Procurement at Issue The Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) issued a Request for Task Order Proposals (RTOP) to holders of the SeaPort Next Generation indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract seeking to procure administrative and engineering support services. 4106(f)(1) and 10 U.S.C.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 9, 2024

To address the requirement, the government intends to award five firm-fixed price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders under the $1.5 billion Unrestricted Vertical Construction multiple award

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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 31, 2024

DHA will award a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract as a small business set aside with an ordering period of up to five years, according to a request for proposals posted Monday on SAM.gov. The IDIQ covers contract, procurement, […]

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GovCon Wire

JULY 17, 2024

million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. and Australian navies and the Foreign Military Sales program under the fixed-price-incentive-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee and cost reimbursable IDIQ, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. A Leonardo DRS business has won a five-year, $417.2

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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 2, 2024

million firm-fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Phoenix Air has received a $165.7 Navy to simulate airborne threats for training, testing and evaluating shipboard and aircraft squadron weapon systems operators and aircrew on fleet air defense and electronic warfare.

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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. To further illustrate the importance of price validation, Paige then walked the audience through a spending search for Chromebooks.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 10, 2024

The $90 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with ASRC Federal has a June 15, 2025, ordering period end date while the one with SupplyCore runs until Feb. 6, 2025, the Department of Defense

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Public Contracting Institute

MAY 23, 2024

As we prepare for our 11th episode of Season 11, here are a few FAR Facts for us to think about: Contract types are grouped into two broad categories: fixed-price and cost-reimbursement contracts. FAR 16.101(b). Contract types that are not described in the FAR shall not be used, except as a FAR subpart 1.4 FAR 16.102(b). FAR 16.301-3(b).

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded $120 million in combined firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts to ASRC Federal and Noble Supply and Logistics for facility support services.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 7, 2024

million fixed-price contract from the U.S. Under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Indra Air Traffic will provide MP TACAN systems, spares and support equipment, the Department of Defense said Monday. Indra‘s air traffic business has secured a $198.4

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Army announced the award of the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in a notice published Army to produce and supply Advanced Medium Mobile Power Sources systems to help the service branch and other Department of Defense components meet their tactical power generation requirements.

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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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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 1, 2024

The new rule (1) increases the applicable domestic content threshold for domestic end products, and (2) creates a framework for the application of an enhanced price preference for domestic products that are considered critical products or are made up of critical components. The list will be populated in a separate rulemaking.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 7, 2024

The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract seeks to help the Navy meet its Ready Relevant Learning Content Conversion Aviation training requirements, the Department of Navy has awarded Integration Innovation Inc. a potential five-year, $187.3

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ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 5, 2024

NASA has awarded 15 companies spots on a five-year, $45 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract in support of the Flight Opportunities and Small Spacecraft Technology programs.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 7, 2023

ASRC Federal and Noble Supply and Logistics have received firm-fixed-price contracts worth $185 million combined from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide maintenance, repair and operations support services at U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and the Coast Guard under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts,

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The 3IS cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers warfighter military training, exercises, plans and operations, the Department of Defense said Friday. The contract, which resulted from

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WashngtonExec

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The contract is a fixed-price indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity award that includes options for extension until 2034. Its estimated maximum value is up to $500 million [.]

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Back then, when the MAS was a mandatory source and was limited to products, like office supplies, many in government interpreted the “lowest cost alternative” to default to lowest price, as price was the most discriminating factor. Forty years later, the MAS program is no longer a mandatory source.

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SmallGovCon

JUNE 19, 2024

Price Preference For civilian agencies , if the contractor with the lowest priced domestic end product is a large business, then the agency will add a price evaluation penalty to the offeror with the lowest priced foreign end product of 20%. What is a Domestic End Product? A list of these items is at FAR 25.104.

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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. To further illustrate the importance of price validation, Paige then walked the audience through a spending search for Chromebooks.

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Select GCR

JUNE 11, 2024

If you’re exploring contract types that any government agency uses, understanding the distinctions between fixed-price, cost-reimbursement, and other specialized contracts is paramount. The two main categories of government contracts are fixed-price contracts and cost-reimbursement contracts.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Back then, when the MAS was a mandatory source and was limited to products, like office supplies, many in government interpreted the “lowest cost alternative” to default to lowest price, as price was the most discriminating factor. Forty years later, the MAS program is no longer a mandatory source.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Stakeholders must appreciate and understand that there is a nexus between requirements and price, especially for small businesses. Data context in assessing fair and reasonable pricing is foundational to sound acquisition business decisions. It is also a regulatory requirement. See FAR 15.405, 15.403-3 and 15.402.

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SmallGovCon

DECEMBER 21, 2023

17, 2023) , GAO looked at this issue in the context of a lowest-price, technically acceptable (LPTA) solicitation for a brand name or better product, with an unexpected ending that the protester surely did not see coming. This is essentially Federal Government Contracting 101 and applies to any type of solicitation. In RELX, Inc.,

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, are trying to correct a misunderstanding of congressional intent when it comes to how and when agencies should consider price when reviewing proposals for contracts.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

First and foremost, if enacted, the legislative language will enable the Schedule program to continue to modernize beyond the price reduction clause, which clause represents the antithesis of best value. Certainly, there will be task or delivery order competitions where price is the determining factor.

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Public Contracting Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The solicitation required proposals to include an Attachment 1 (pricing schedule), an Attachment 8 which listed the salient characteristics (specifications) for each item requested, and an Attachment 9 (a pricing crosswalk that contained two columns: one column contained every item description proposed and quantity of the items proposed while the other (..)

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The solicitation required proposals to include an Attachment 1 (pricing schedule), an Attachment 8 which listed the salient characteristics (specifications) for each item requested, and an Attachment 9 (a pricing crosswalk that contained two columns: one column contained every item description proposed and quantity of the items proposed while the other (..)

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 26, 2024

This investment will help HALO’s current work in Ukraine while supporting the organization’s ability to store, process, and analyze the vast quantity of data it collects more safely and efficiently. This expands access to government customers and offers them selection among speed, performance, and price.

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Federal Construction Contracting

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Notable about this case is the contractor’s invocation of a July 2, 2020 Department of Defense (DoD) memorandum concerning the financial consequences on contractors with firm-fixed-price contracts lacking an economic price adjustment clause during “historic and unprecedented challenges” in the wake of the pandemic’s onset.

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Inside Government Contracts

MARCH 12, 2024

That general waiver has been in place ever since. This change in policy comes in the wake of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’s Build America, Buy America (“BABA”) provisions, which expanded Buy America coverage broadly in federal financial assistance programs for infrastructure. Comments on the RFI are open until May 13, 2024.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

AUGUST 23, 2023

Traditional sourcing was all about sourcing goods at the lowest possible price. Where price is the primary component of traditional sourcing, it is just one component of strategic sourcing. Consider the departments involved, the quantity, where they are located and the processes that are used.

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