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• How Should We Respond to Poster's Questions?

  Too many rules: If I feel like i'm walking on egg shells, i won't participate. It's a website and i know nobody personally that participates.

  in Contracting Workforce · 6y ago

• What type of contract shall I use (Medical Services)?

  Yeah, if you're VA you are going to want to sit down with the people at the VISN or central office or the medical sharing office and figure out how to move forward, especially if this is a national co

  in Contract Award Process · 6y ago

• Latest & Greatest Evaluation Factors

  > > apsofacto said: > > > Do you remember if there was a liquidated damages clause? I don’t remember what solicitation it was. I tried to google it and find it again on FBO but could not find it. I

  in Contract Award Process · 6y ago

• Latest & Greatest Evaluation Factors

  I saw a state solicitation for construction recently where price was evaluated using a cost and time method. The contractor would propose their cost for the project and then the number of days from NT

  in Contract Award Process · 6y ago

• Incorporating As Many Clauses As You Want?

  I don't know that i'm smart enough to develop an algorithm, but i could probably come up with something for specific acquisitions. like small biz set-aside construction using sealed bid and get close.

  in For Beginners Only · 6y ago

• Medical Equipment Purchase Procedures for Veterans

  When i worked at the VA, I never worked prosthetics, but this may answer some of your questions.   Most prosthetic are sole source procurements. See 38 U.S. Code § 8123 See VHA [Directive 1081](http

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• A Hiring Challenge

  QUESTIONS **Do you think the challenge is reasonable?** No in the way of using it as a hiring tool at the senior level described. The idea of submitting a writing sample might make sense in an entry

  in Contracting Workforce · 7y ago

• Evaluation Factors

  You’re getting too hung up on the VA’s electronic contract management system, the instructions it gives at each provision/clause fill in, limitations associated with that system, and what the FAR tell

  in For Beginners Only · 8y ago

• How can we speed up the source selection process?

  Go paperless. Get rid of paper contract files. Require digital signatures for all internal documents, and external documents when verifiable.  Reduce the number of reviews and re-reviews for solicit

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Truth Decay

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > You must have read this: [http://www.businessinsider.com/2--2-doesnt-always-equal-4-2014-6](http://www.businessinsider.com/2--2-doesnt-always-equal-4-2014-6) I was sitti

  in Contracting Workforce · 8y ago

• Truth Decay

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > 2 + 2 is indisputably 4 I could prove that not to be true using Modulo Operations and a 12 hour clock to represent a 24 hour day.  I think of a lot of theories as facts

  in Contracting Workforce · 8y ago

• Incremental funding of GSA FSS orders

  You can add non-conflicting clauses to GSA schedules. By non-conflicting i mean you can't insert clauses such as 52.243-3 when 52.212-4(c) would apply to the schedule.  The homeland security acquisit

  in Schedules, GWACs, MACs, IDIQs · 8y ago

• Contract status / PR tracking system?

  That's what we use is excel. If you want to be able to update a document while someone else is working on it you'll need SharePoint, which is pretty standard these days.  Google docs has had this fea

  in Contract Administration · 8y ago

• SF 1449 Block 29

  I’ve heard arguments both ways that you should leave it blank if soliciting quotes, and that you should put the quote number, the date it was accepted and the items that were accepted. I think the SF1

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Duty to notify agency of unavailability of proposed Key Personnel?

  I’ve seen this as a special condition where it requires the contractor to notify the Government anytime their key personnel are changed from what was initially proposed. I don’t know that it’s in the

  in For Beginners Only · 8y ago

• Does the FAR instruct anyone besides the CO?

  2C171/1 is a permissions error code. Did you click the link for the download > didn't work > then signed in to post that it didn't work? If yes i'd guess the issue is it's only available to members gi

  in Proposed Law & Regulations / Legal Decisions · 8y ago

• Where/ How to start learning?

  There also might be clauses you do not want to be included in your contract that gives a certain degree of rights in data or liability, for example. I’d be cautious about primes giving a blanket set o

  in For Beginners Only · 8y ago

• page limitations on proposals

  Have you asked the CO if they'd change it? I once worked for an agency that included similar page limitations as you are describing for all RFQ's they posted, regardless if it was for $100k grounds ma

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Determinative Date of SB Size Status

  When I worked for the VA I had a situation where we awarded 5 IDIQ’s to SDVOSB’s. One of the SDVOSB’s lost their status (survivorship rights ended). An attorney told me we couldn’t use that contract a

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 8y ago

• IDIQ Socioeconomic

  13 CFR says something to the effect that you can't use cascading procedures unless you have statutory authority to do so. I'd have to reread it and see exactly what it says about making awards to mult

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 8y ago