One option CLIN a little different than the rest?
Started by Sam101 · Apr 21, 2022 · 2 replies
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Sam101
Apr 21, 2022 · 4y ago
I'm 99% sure that this is a dumb question but say you get a price proposal that looks like this:
Base Year CLIN 1: $5,000.00
Option Year 1 CLIN 101: $7,000.00
Option Year 2 CLIN 201: $6,000.00
Option Year 3 CLIN 301: $6,000.00
Option Year 4 CLIN 401: $6,000.00
It looks goofy like the offeror is trying to kind of spread out the loss of bidding low on CLINs 2 through 4 but it's probably not unbalanced pricing since it's not significant.
Is this common? I almost just want to award with making CLIN 2 be $6,000.00 and take it as an obvious clerical error, I don't want to enter into negotiations, or if I ask for clarification and they say they did it on purpose I'll want to say this just looks messed up and say it's $6,000.00 or you're out of the competition for unbalanced pricing... even though it's possibly not, in which case I can't say that they're out... has this happened to anyone before?
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Vern Edwards
Apr 22, 2022 · 4y ago
Sam101 said:
Is this common?
I don't know.
Sam101 said:
has this happened to anyone before?
Not to me.
Why don't you contact the offeror and ask for an explanation? That seems like the commonsense thing to do.
I don't know if your procurement is sole source or competitive. If it's competitive, then follow applicable rules about communicating after receipt of proposals.
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Don Mansfield
Apr 22, 2022 · 4y ago
I would suspect that the offeror is trying to recover a nonrecurring cost within the first two years. Maybe they have a high expectation that you'll exercise Option Year 1, but are not sure about the others. There could be a good reason. I wouldn't make an assumption that it's a clerical error.