Availability of Funds as Evaluation Criterion
Started by here_2_help · Jun 27, 2018 · 1 replies
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here_2_help
Jun 27, 2018 · 7y ago
Just looked at the new DoD Class Deviation posted on the WIFCON home page. Apparently, the availability of funds will be a mandatory evaluation criterion for these "commercial" orders. That's a new one for me. How is the availability of funds (as opposed to price) a meaningful discriminator between offerors?
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Matthew Fleharty
Jun 27, 2018 · 7y ago
This is basically the BAA approach, but for "innovative commercial items, technologies, or services." If you read FAR 35.016 you'll notice a lot of the language in the Class Deviation is lifted word for word from there. Since proposals are not necessarily evaluated against each other, there are concerns of affordability (i.e. a proposal can be technically sound with a fair and reasonable price yet not affordable).