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• Responding jointly to Federal RFI transparency experience?

  Ask for a redacted version? They probably want to protect their margin...

  in Subcontracts & Subcontract Management · 3y ago

• Non-Manufacturer Rule Waiver

  Looking for opinions : If an RFP for a potential contract has an approved NMR waiver for that specific contract, is that RFP now required to be set-aside for small business?

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 4y ago

• Information Collection

  Most of the final rules actually list comments and a response.  From [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/02/27/2020-02028/federal-acquisition-regulation-set-asides-under-multiple-award-co

  in About the Regulations · 4y ago

• Transfer an existing BPA to a new 20-year GSA MAS contract?

  At its simplest, isn't a GSA BPA a task order under a contract? I don't see how contractually one could take an awarded task and just modify it to a different overarching contract. Yes the terms are s

  in Schedules, GWACs, MACs, IDIQs · 4y ago

• Hypothetical Rule of Two Questions

  To add some fuel - from the original federal notice where the FAR was amended in 2016: [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/06/2016-28432/federal-acquisition-regulation-set-asides-under

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 5y ago

• Hypothetical Rule of Two Questions

  > > ji20874 said: > > > I disagree.  Words have meaning.  The statute did not say that the agency **_shall_** use a set-aside used **_when_** certain conditions for a set-aside exist; rather, the sta

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 5y ago

• Hypothetical Rule of Two Questions

  > > Just now, Constricting Officer said: > > > #1 What if I said SB had already had their chance to compete for SAIDIQ and didn't make it?  > > > > #2 What if I said that the SB is a member of the M

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 5y ago

• Hypothetical Rule of Two Questions

  I have a feeling I'm in the minority here, but I keep reading 15 USC 644(r) and 19.502-4. Is there any credence to the thought that the reason 19.502-4 says may is to allow for the exception to fair o

  in Small Business Socioeconomic Programs · 5y ago

• Novation question

  Under some GWACS (Like SEWP) the hubzone (or SDVO etc.) pools are run as a separate competition, so a novation will not get you in a pool that wasnt competed for.  While the "new company" may be hubzo

  in Contract Administration · 5y ago

• Service Contract Reporting

  We see them using the CPAR to tie it down. Statements like - failure to complete will negatively affect your CPARS rating for this contract.

  in Contract Administration · 5y ago

• Probability Problem #1

  Late to party here , but wouldn't it be 20% ? This is like a coin flip, the probability doesn't increase or compound as it goes through each appeal. Combining them assumes the results are connected.

  in Proposed Law & Regulations / Legal Decisions · 7y ago

• Successive Bid Protests

  My original point was (and still is) that the CA process needs to be fixed. We agree 100% on the competency, ideally the workforce should know how do their job correctly, and some do. I think the proc

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

• Successive Bid Protests

  > > Vern Edwards said: > > > In this case, it's not. Two thousand protests year are less than a drop in the bucket of all new acquisitions. Yes a drop in the bucket for the Government, but I was ref

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

• Successive Bid Protests

  > > Matthew Fleharty said: > > > No, just as agencies can take corrective action, protesters may withdraw their protest(s). Thanks - I didn't think that was correct, but couldn't find better data >

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

• Successive Bid Protests

  We discussed this a bit in the other thread, but I think it comes back to the Corrective Actions. GAO needs to evaluate the merit of a potential CA, and GAO and the government need to stop looking at

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

• NASA SEWP and BPAs

  If you are on the government side, they will answer all of your questions if you contact them. If you are industry, they may not be as forthcoming...

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

• NASA SEWP and BPAs

  A lot of views for no response... In general SEWP doesn't really allow many of these anymore, they push Agencies to an Agency Catalog (which has even less info on the FAQ)if the requirement is less de

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

• Bid Protests: GAO or the Courts

  Very interesting reads. Trying to pick out a common theme, but need to read through a few more times. At the very least it seems as though the initial corrective actions were flawed, which led to mult

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Bid Protests: GAO or the Courts

  @bob7947 Out of curiosity, is it easy to see how many COFC cases went through multiple rounds of Corrective Actions at GAO?

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago

• Bid Protests: GAO or the Courts

  Serious and slightly related question. Does anyone feel like the Corrective Action process needs to be looked at? Both Industry and Government seem to lean on it as a crutch. The government knows they

  in Contract Award Process · 8y ago