What's Wrong With This Picture?
Started by Don Mansfield · Nov 19, 2015 · 4 replies
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Don Mansfield
Nov 19, 2015 · 10y ago
DFARS 214.201-5( c ) was recently added to read:
Include an evaluation factor regarding supply chain risk (see subpart 239.73) when acquiring information technology, whether as a service or as a supply, that is a covered system, is a part of a covered system, or is in support of a covered system, as defined in239.7301.
What's wrong with this picture?
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ji20874
Nov 19, 2015 · 10y ago
Is it the use of a non-price evaluation factor in a sealed bid? You quoted DFARS 214.201-5( c ), and Part 14 is sealed bidding.
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Don Mansfield
Nov 19, 2015 · 10y ago
Winner!
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metteec
Nov 20, 2015 · 10y ago
Don, do you think that FAR Provision 52.214-21, Descriptive Literature, could be the means for the agency requesting and evaluating the supply chain management plan (particularly paragraph (B )(5))?
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Don Mansfield
Nov 20, 2015 · 10y ago
Don, do you think that FAR Provision 52.214-21, Descriptive Literature, could be the means for the agency requesting and evaluating the supply chain management plan (particularly paragraph (B )(5))?
No, I don't think a supply chain management plan would fall within "Methods of manufacture, assembly, construction, or operation" of a product.
I think that information necessary to assess a bidder's supply chain risk should be requested as part of a responsibility determination.