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• Missed Size Protest Window Due to Missing Information

  @Neil Roberts, thanks. It didn't occur to me to check DUNS before, but I just ran a check and they don't appear to be registered with DUNS (the registered for federal contracting after the transition

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Missed Size Protest Window Due to Missing Information

  > > Neil Roberts said: > > > [@Salus](/u/salus), Perhaps I do not understand the situation you are describing. I don't know why an awardee under multiple awards can not submit a protest within 5 days

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Missed Size Protest Window Due to Missing Information

  > > formerfed said: > > > I would tread lightly until you have more information.  By that I mean just limiting actions to conversations with SBA, the CO, and maybe senior contracting at the agency le

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Missed Size Protest Window Due to Missing Information

  > > On 3/1/2024 at 11:07 AM, joel hoffman said: > > > Have you tried contacting the SBA? If you think that there is evidence of misrepresentation of small business status involved in a contract award

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Missed Size Protest Window Due to Missing Information

  Hi All, All the windows have passed, so this is more information seeking on how to handle similar issues in the future. As part of a multiple-award IDIQ that was set aside entirely for small busines

  in Contract Award Process · 2y ago

• Can an IDIQ Task Order by Re-awarded or Re-evaluated if Below the Protest Threshold

  Great, thank you for the answers everyone!

  in Contract Administration · 4y ago

• Can an IDIQ Task Order by Re-awarded or Re-evaluated if Below the Protest Threshold

  Can the CO cancel (or pause) the TO to reevaluate proposals after erroneous material is removed from the evaluation and then re-award from the same solicitation, or would they have to terminate for co

  in Contract Administration · 4y ago

• Can an IDIQ Task Order by Re-awarded or Re-evaluated if Below the Protest Threshold

  Good Day, Can a task order (under an IDIQ and under the protestable threshold) that was recently awarded be re-evaluated and/or re-awarded by the Contracting Officer if there were significant errors

  in Contract Administration · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Every position was described in the solicitation down to the tasks and duties.

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Hi Joel, that is a good find. I am guessing that these parts of the regs could be what triggered the issue if the CO kind of worked through the typical requirements for a labor hour contract without r

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Sorry, sloppy on my part, because my question was about price realism. Price reasonableness was checked at the master contract level (and our rates for this TO were significantly discounted from there

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Vern, you are correct. There would be no way to really compare. Aside from the CO telling us that the contract was awarded based on lowest price because all ratings were equal, we really just wanted

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Vern, I am going to agree with you in principle. However, in this case I think that would have just been additional wasted time and money. We know that in the dozen or so contracts awarded by this of

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  C Culham, thanks for that! We definitely did not receive some of that information. I would very much like to see unit prices and the overall rankings. We asked about the number of strengths and weakne

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Thanks Joel, we'll take all the luck we can get to even the playing field! C Culham, you are correct. That made it all the more difficult to provide an SCA wage determination to justify paying overti

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  They were (just) small when the proposals were submitted for the master contract. One of the teams was a joint venture, mentor protege that are now affiliated (this was one of 3 contracts they picked

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Oh, and I wasn't clear earlier. The reason for the amendment requesting updated proposal was because the process had gone on long enough that all of the original quotes had expired. They did request u

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Thanks JI.  I wish we had thought of that as protestable. We did explain that were concerned about our inclusion of overtime rates potentially pricing us out of competition, and with the language inc

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  I want to reiterate that I don't necessarily think we should have won. We don't know how the winning team was evaluated for comparison, and it is totally possible they got many strengths and were chea

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago

• Adjectival Rating and Awards Question

  Hi Vern, We did not use a professional proposal management consultant for this project. Our team is just on the verge of being able to regularly incorporate that kind of extra support (which this con

  in Contract Award Process · 4y ago