rsenn

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• Teaming Agreements and Workshare

  > > On 1/31/2019 at 11:50 AM, PepeTheFrog said: > > > Incentives. Probably because they receive benefits for winning work but the costs of poor ventures are born by others in the company. Why should

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Teaming Agreements and Workshare

  > > jwomack said: > > > _Because you continue working with them on their terms._ > > > > _Your willingness to walk away if they don’t._ Alas, you are correct.  I tried walking away (not signing). 

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Teaming Agreements and Workshare

  My BD guys tend to bring me teaming agreements where we'd be a sub to a prospective prime contractor. The TA's usually indicate that we would get to help the prospective prime win, and bear the propo

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 7y ago

• Bottoms-up pricing

  > > On 7/1/2018 at 1:36 PM, here\_2\_help said: > > > Hope these anecdotes amuse somebody out there. They do.

  in For Beginners Only · 7y ago

• Exempt EE's working LESS than 40 hours

  > > Retreadfed said: > > > Not so.  The FLSA applies to non-contractors as well as contractors.  Thus, any employer can establish what it considers a standard work week for its exempt employees. The

  in For Beginners Only · 7y ago

• We Cannot Explain Our Requirements

  It sounds like everyone is focused on the process, not the output. Try defining the output that you want, and the input you will provide, and leave the process to the offerors. Input -> Process -> O

  in Contract Award Process · 7y ago

• Exempt EE's working LESS than 40 hours

  > > On 9/25/2018 at 10:14 AM, here\_2\_help said: > > > Hours less than 40 are recorded to either Paid Time Off or to Leave Without Pay. No exceptions. Why do you assume that 40 hours must be the ba

  in For Beginners Only · 7y ago

• Degrees and experience

  Can a company grant degrees and certificates? If I need my employees to be Certified Oracle Experts, can I have my HR department issue them certificates certifying them as Certified Oracle Experts?

  in Contracting Workforce · 8y ago

• How can we speed up the source selection process?

  Use smaller procurements, with clear and objective evaluation criteria, so that evaluation becomes a simple check the box exercise. Use output based purchasing (buy the results of services (deliverab

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Types of orders

  A recently released RFQ calls for "call orders."  I can see nothing in the RFQ that would distinguish a call order from a delivery order. Still, I am familiar with calls as sold in the securities mar

  in For Beginners Only · 8y ago

• Debriefing request timeline

  > > On 5/30/2017 at 9:39 AM, Gordon Shumway said: > > > In the time it took to start this thread you could have just requested the debriefing.      I did just that.

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• Debriefing request timeline

  If an unsuccessful offeror receives the notice at 3 pm on the Friday before a  3 day Memorial Day weekend, need he request a debriefing by Monday evening, or is the deadline extended until Tuesday eve

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• Subk agreement needed to be audit worthy?

  And all of this is good reason to avoid buying anything, even a pencil, on a cost type contract until you've got the KO's approval and determination of reasonableness in writing. Oddly, to comply wit

  in Contract Pricing including CAS & Allowable Costs · 9y ago

• TEP = Sum of Labor Rates

  It is implicit that they think all labor categories will use the same number of hours, whether that be one hour or 2080 hours.

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• Subcontractor vs Vendor

  ## It looks to me as if subcontractor is a subset of vendor. ## A subcontractor performs part of the prime contract.  If the vendor does that, it is a subcontractor.  If it does not, then it is not.

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 9y ago

• competitor not performing

  A couple of months ago we lost a LPTA re-compete to a company with a less than stellar reputation.  Call them Scuzzball.  True to form they made employment offers to some of the incumbent staff at 25%

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• FAR 16.505(b), no debriefing

  Okay.  I guess I am in the minority, but I read it as 15.506 is the general and applicable clause requiring the debriefing, and 16.505 simply adds more requirements for the debriefing when the order i

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• FAR 16.505(b), no debriefing

  Yesterday we lost a proposal and asked for a debriefing.  The KO declined to provide a debriefing, citing FAR 16.505(b) and the fact that the order was under $5.5 million. I don't read that clause as

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• NAICS Codes for Prime Award vs SB Teammates

  I discussed this with SBA a few years ago.  The SBA said the prime is free to use a different NAICS code with it's subs. The example is the prime contract is to support a wide ranging network.  The p

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago

• Superior knowledge

  Ok guys, let's look at a common enough situation.  The RFP is out, and the labor category descriptions are written to the incumbent workforce.  The RFP is clear enough in displaying that the governmen

  in Contract Award Process · 9y ago