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• SAM Validation for IDIQ orders?

  > > justinramani said: > > > Check out Part 9: Contractor Responsibility - then check the AFARS. I appreciate that, [@justinramani](/u/justinramani). But I'm not sure you answered my question. Or pe

  in Schedules, GWACs, MACs, IDIQs · 6y ago

• SAM Validation for IDIQ orders?

  Having worked at three different (Army) contracting offices, my experience has been that, frequently, prior to award of any contract action (new contract, modification, task order, etc.), the Contract

  in Schedules, GWACs, MACs, IDIQs · 6y ago

• Brand Name J&A for Task Order under Multiple Award IDC?

  > > ji20874 said: > > > But for a construction contract, the clause at 52.236-5, Material and Workmanship, controls.  Because of that clause, you don’t need a BNJ, because and brand name specific

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• Brand Name J&A for Task Order under Multiple Award IDC?

  > > General.Zhukov said: > > > BNJ is covered  FAR 16.505 (a), while Fair Opportunity is FAR 16.505 (b) @General.Zhukov that's it! I was mis-reading 16.505(a) that a fair opportunity exception

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• Brand Name J&A for Task Order under Multiple Award IDC?

  > > Matthew Fleharty said: > > > [@jdm843](/u/jdm843) Recommend you read the Applicability section of FAR Part 6: @Matthew Fleharty I read it. Thanks.  The book answer is definitely that FAR Part 6

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• Brand Name J&A for Task Order under Multiple Award IDC?

  I'm a Contracting Officer tasked with soliciting for a construction project that involves a brand name specification under the CICA waiver authority under FAR 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source.  The

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• Request for Equitable Adjustment - Scope & Fiscal Question

  > > Don Mansfield said: > > > DFARS 252.243-7002 doesn't entitle the contractor to an equitable adjustment, it just requires that such requests contain certain information. What clause in your contra

  in Contract Administration · 9y ago

• Request for Equitable Adjustment - Scope & Fiscal Question

  > > ji20874 said: > > > I recommend you stop trying to play attorney -- you said you are a PCO, so you need to play the contracting officer role. > > > > The p\[revious modifications are within scop

  in Contract Administration · 9y ago

• Request for Equitable Adjustment - Scope & Fiscal Question

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > Why get into that? Your predecessor handled the mods and, presumably, considered them to be within scope. The contractor did not object. Why do you want to make an issue

  in Contract Administration · 9y ago

• Request for Equitable Adjustment - Scope & Fiscal Question

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > If the Government requested the bilateral changes, then it had to provide consideration to the contractor for each such change, rather than an equitable adjustment, which

  in Contract Administration · 9y ago

• Request for Equitable Adjustment - Scope & Fiscal Question

  Hello WIFCON! Would love some input here from any knowledgeable folks about this...  I am an Army PCO tasked with negotiating a request for equitable adjustment (REA) on a fixed price commercial contr

  in Contract Administration · 9y ago

• A-E IDIQ Contracts and Multiple Award, Fair Opportunity

  Thanks for the input. I'm not sure the Brook Act and fair opportunity are mutually exclusive, however. I.E. fair opportunity doesn't have to consider price when acquiring A-E services under a multipl

  in Contract Award Process · 11y ago

• A-E IDIQ Contracts and Multiple Award, Fair Opportunity

  Would love some input here from any knowledgeable folks about this. If an agency intends to issue a single solicitation for multiple A-E services IDIQ contracts, is that a "multiple award" as defined

  in Contract Award Process · 11y ago

• A/E and 8(a) Sole Source?

  > jdm, My point number two above only referred to Vern's statement concerning a sole source procedure to award a "two-phase design-build contract". Perhaps I was unclear--I meant that I don't see how

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 12y ago

• A/E and 8(a) Sole Source?

  I appreciate all the input! Vern, since you brought it up: the EFARS is obsolete--in 2013 it was replaced by the [USACE Acquistion Instruction (UAI)](http://www.usace.army.mil/Portals/2/docs/Contract

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 12y ago

• Sec. 508 Compliance for Proposals (not Deliverables)

  For what it's worth, I don't see how FAR 39.2 is anywhere near applicable to accepting proposals. The contractor that built the file-exchange system through which we accept the proposals--presumablly

  in Contract Award Process · 12y ago

• A/E and 8(a) Sole Source?

  That was me both here and at AAP. I understood the AAP response to to mean that the "this" of "you may do this" in the first sentence refers to pursuing an 8(a) sole source award in general--to do so

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 12y ago

• A/E and 8(a) Sole Source?

  I apprciate your input. That CofC case does provide good historical context of the project delivery methods in federal procurement. The DAU "professor" seems to agree with the conclusion as well ([htt

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 12y ago

• A/E and 8(a) Sole Source?

  I'm curious what's y'all's take (Joel in particular) on going 8(a) sole source for DESIGN-BUILD? There's some debate amongst KO's in my contracting shop & legal counsel about whether the Small Busines

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 12y ago

• Contract Modification, Bonafide Need, Severable Services - Award year or current year funds?

  mwade, I assume your reference to the Redbook is from Vol. I, Chapter 5B, Section 7 on page 5-34? _"In the case of a contract for severable services, a modification providing for increased services m

  in Contract Administration · 12y ago