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• HHS lost half is contracting workforce. You are the SPE, what do you do?

  Has HHS maximized non-1102 use of the government purchase card? Does HHS allow 1102s to use the purchase card up to the SAT, without issuing purchase orders? Does HHS allow non-1102s to serve as ord

  in Contracting Workforce · 3mo ago

• FFP Extensions?

  Well, which is it? Is it the contractor's fault or a Government change? If the contractor is at fault for its late ordering of parts, why would the Government modify the due date? Instead, the Govern

  in Contract Administration · 10mo ago

• Are you permitted to ask for additional discounts from a contractor during contract performance?

  For a starter, see FAR **8.405-4.**

  in Contract Administration · 1y ago

• Another commercial-product RFQ gone terribly wrong.

  Textiles for DoD?  One might think there should be some mention of the Berry Amendment.

  in The Good, The Bad, The Ugly · 1y ago

• Extending the POP on a severable, FFP type contract for Task Orders.

  Late on deliveries?  Is this for supplies? Or, late on performing services?

  in Contract Administration · 1y ago

• 100% of anticipated results received per government evaluators under FAR 16.207 FFP/LOE, post delivery, CO thinks it did not take the LOE and contractor owes government back.

  Cyber, The contractor may protect its interests by following the contract's _Disputes_ clause.  No one here can provide a remedy, and no one here knows the facts.  If the contractor is right, and if

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• 100% of anticipated results received per government evaluators under FAR 16.207 FFP/LOE, post delivery, CO thinks it did not take the LOE and contractor owes government back.

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > I have to say that sounds like a flakey contract. An FFP/LOE contract... I'm still wondering if OP has a real FFP-LOE contract.

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• 100% of anticipated results received per government evaluators under FAR 16.207 FFP/LOE, post delivery, CO thinks it did not take the LOE and contractor owes government back.

  Most likely, this matter cannot be resolved without seeing the contract's text and understanding the context of its formation and administration. If this really is a FFP-LOE contract, isn't the contr

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Mandatory office required near AFB

  Is the requirement objectionable to you? You don't need a protest or regulation citation to ask for a solicitation amendment.

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Delivery Order extended after the PoP

  Birdsong, Are you the contracting officer?  If YES, your options include: \- refuse late delivery and make no payment; \- terminate the delivery order for cause or default; \- negotiate a new deliv

  in Contract Administration · 2y ago

• Streamlining: multiple like requirements, in 1 solicitation, awarding multiple independent contracts, not a multi award IDIQ

  You might ask your procurement analysts to prove their FAR authority.  My copy of the FAR says that silence does not mean prohibition; rather, good business sense is the goal.  My copy of the FAR also

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Streamlining: multiple like requirements, in 1 solicitation, awarding multiple independent contracts, not a multi award IDIQ

  Reviewers are irrelevant.  Who is the big boss in your office?  What does he or she say?  He or she can consider your input, and their input, and make a decision.

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Use of Clause 52.208-9 Contractor Use of Mandatory Sources of Supply or Services

  I think the "for government use" is implied in the 41 CFR text.  If an agency needs services included on the list, and those services are included in a larger procurement for services, the contractor

  in About the Regulations · 2y ago

• Government establishes BOA prices

  I am intrigued by the thought of saying I'm willing to pay $10 per hamburger meal, for example, and inviting interested offerors to provide the best menus, ingredients, chef skills, and so forth -- th

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• UCA Contract Type and Pricing

  I think the boards of contract appeal also have repeatedly used wording that a change order and a T4C on FFP contracts are "essentially" cost-reimbursement until agreement on equitable adjustment or s

  in Contract Pricing including CAS & Allowable Costs · 2y ago

• Material Cost Adjustment

  Does the clause at FAR 52.229-3 provide your contractors with the protection from tariffs they are seeking?

  in For Beginners Only · 7y ago

• Barring Subcontractor

  > > On 8/13/2018 at 3:38 PM, joel hoffman said: > > > Ji, subcontractors aren’t normally rated separately in CPARS are they? As far as I know, the performance rating is for the prime. The sub’s fail

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Barring Subcontractor

  Did you know that unsatisfactory performance of one or more {sub}contracts is a basis for debarment?  If you use a clause like FAR 52.209-6 in future contracts, it might help keep the firm from gettin

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Barring Subcontractor

  - report the prime's failures in CPARS, as sub's failures are prime's failures - evaluate  the prime's subcontracting approach (if not sealed bid) - debar the subcontractor

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Reprocurement After T4C

  Thanks for feedback! Vern Edwards, - 1.  Yes.  15 months might be a little excessive, and we might want to use a shorter period. - 2.  Just wondering, not asserting.  It is already clearly estab

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago