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Contract Formation

Month of First Post

Additive, Alternate, or Deductive Bid Items
     Additive Bid Items

9/01

     Can Additives, Deductives, or Alternates be Used in Requests for Proposals?

12/01

     Option vs. Additive Bid Item

10/02

     Proper Use of Additive/Deductive Clause

10/00

Awardee
     Contracting with Individuals

1/03

Bid and Proposal Submission
      Alteration of the Bid Schedule by Bidder

5/01

     Are e-mailed unsolicited proposals considered spam?

5/03

     "Confidential" Marked on Contractor Documents

2/03

     Discrepancy between Hard Copy and Digital Proposals

2/03

     Elaborate Proposals

8/02

     Is the Proposal Late?

9/01

     Limiting Proposal Size

2/02

     Virus in electronic proposals

5/00

Canceling Invitation for Bids
     Canceling an IFB when low bid is less than funds available

8/01

Competition
     At what level is a sole-source J&A required?

10/02

     What's the value of competition?

11/00

     Competition or Sole-Source on Follow-on contracts

2/02

     Security v. Full and Open Competition

12/02

     Unique Supplier Items Sold Through a Dealer

5/02

Contracting Out
     Consultant helping with contract administration duties

2/03

Contractor Responsibility - FAR Part 9 issues
     Can an offeror be determined nonresponsible prior to an agency's set-aside decision? 12/03
     Contractor Responsibility 6/01
     Satisfactory Record of Integrity and Business Ethics

12/00

Contract Types - Fixed-Price, Cost-Reimbursement, etc. 
     Applying Award-feed Towards Overrun

11/01

     Are firm-fixed unit-price contracts "firm-fixed-price" contracts?

5/00

     Award Fee Criteria for Corporate Management

6/00

     Award Fee Language Discrepancy

4/02

     Award Term and 5 year limitation

1/01

     Award Terms and the Service Contract Act

3/02

     Award Term Contracts

6/00

     Award Term - Legality

2/03

     Can "Not To Exceed (NTE)" be used on CPFF Contracts?

2/03

     Change of Contract Type

7/00

     Commercial Items and Contract Incentives

6/00

     Cost Growth and Cover-ups on Cost Contracts

12/00

     Cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contracts

7/01

     Cost Plus Award Fee and the "unilateral"decision to make fee award

5/02

     Do you have to give an award fee in a CPAF contract that doesn't have a plan?

1/01

     Economic Price Adjustment - Fixed Price Contract

4/01

     Fee again

2/02

      Fixed Price Incentive - Successive Target

9/00

     Fixed Price Purchase Order

1/03

     Fixed Price Redetermination Contract

12/00

     Interim Award Fee

8/00

      Level of Effort v Term or Completion

6/01

     Limitation on Award Fees

1/02

     Motivating a Contractor on a Low Production Contract

1/00

     Need incentive examples

7/00

     One use for a Fixed-Price Incentive Contract

1/00

     Profit and Fee Limitations

8/00

     Profit Under T&M Contracts  
     "To Be Negotiated" Line Items

12/07

     Time and Material Contracts on the Compensation Spectrum

3/03

     Time and Materials Contracts Questions

9/00

     Time and Materials on Subcontracts

9/00

     Travel Under Time & Material Contract

12/01

     Wage Increases and CPAF Contracts

7/00

     What do you make of this Award-Fee language?

4/02

     Why do we love incentives?

9/00

Debriefing
     Content of Letters to Losing Offerors

9/02

Discussions with Offerors
     Clarifications vs Discussions

5/03

     Comptroller General and National Projects Inc. (B-283887)

7/02

     Control of Exchanges with Offerors

7/02

     Discussions About Price

6/01

     Requirement to Re-open Negotiations

12/01

Evaluation Factors
     Basis for Award and Significance of Factors

5/02

     Criteria for a Phased Proposal Evaluation Process

6/00

     Experience Versus Training for IT Services

2/00

     Evaluation Criteria on Sealed Bidding

4/01

     Prohibition on Numerical Weighting for Evaluation of Proposals

3/01

      Weighting of Evaluation Factors in Solicitations  (Part 1)  (Part 2)

4/01

Federal Supply Schedules
     Acquiring Services from Multiple Award Schedules

10/02

     Bypass Acquisition Office-GSA Program

8/01

      Can an Order Be Incrementally Funded?

9/01

      Dozing Contracting Organizations or Fundamental Misunderstanding?

1/01

     8(a) Contracting under Schedules

2/01

     GSA Ordering Instructions, Interesting Case Regarding

4/01

     GSA Schedules, Special Ordering Provisions

3/01

     Lease Agreements Under Schedule for Personal Computers

2/02

     Market Research Using Federal Supply Schedules

7/01

     Ordering of Services, Bid Protests, and Streamlined Procedures

10/00

     Protest Decision B-285164.3 (N&N Travel)

9/00

     Revealing an Entity's GSA Schedule to a Prospective Competitor

7/02

     Secretarial/Receptionist Support

1/03

     Sole Source GSA Award

4/02

     Synopsis Rules and Federal Supply Schedules

11/02

     Time & Material Order on GSA Schedule 70

2/03

     Using another entity's sole source contract

3/01

Final Proposal Revisions
     Common Cut-Off Date

2/01

     Common Cut-Off Date - Round 2

3/03

Governmentwide Acquisition Contracts

     CICA vs. Multiple Award Omnibus Contract

1/03

     Competing two GWACS

6/01

     Requirements Orders Under a Multiple Award Task Order Contract

7/03

     Seeking Best Practices on GWACS, MACS, MOBIS and GSA Schedules

1/02

Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contracts 
     Advantages and Disadvantages 2/01
     Award of Multi-Agency Contract - OMB Approval 10/00
     Can a Request for quote be used to award an IDIQ type contract? 1/01
     Ceiling Increase to Multiple Award IDIQ 8(a) 7/00
     Fair Opportunity 11/01
     IDIQ Minimums 10/01
     IDIQ Contracts And Initial Obligation 10/07
     Multiple Award Coverage - Other Than FAR 16.504 4/02
     New Opportunities under IDIQ Task Orders 3/02
     "Rolling IDIQ contracts" 2/00
     Selection of Vendors to Compete on Task Orders 10/00
     Scope and Competition 6/00
     Task Orders for Severable Services 8/01
Latent Defects
     Latent Defects and Warranties

2/01

Leasing
     Modular Buildings - Lease with option to purchase

1/01

Options
     Options for Additional Work

4/02

Oral Presentations
     Fair Treatment During an Oral Presentation

8/02

     How NOT to use oral presentations

1/00

     Oral Presentations and Sample Tasks

11/00

     Oral Presentation that Covers Written Proposal

12/00

     Rating Oral Presentations

12/01

     When to Use Oral Presentations

1/00

Overseas and International Contracting 
     Sending your contractor overseas

1/02

Patents
     Use of Patented Construction Designs

11/00

Performance Based Contracting
     Performance Based Contracting and OMB's Role 5/01
     PBSA 6/01
     Performance Based Service Contracting 2/00
     Performance-Based Service Contracting--What is it? 6/01
      Performance Incentives for Research--Tell him About it!!! 5/01
     Relational Contract Language 3/02
Post Award Conference
     How to Prepare One  10/01
Pricing Issues
     Adequate Price Competition 10/01
     Allowable Costs - Relocation Expenses 12/01
     Are Ceiling Rates the Same as Wrap Rates? 10/02
     Contractor Per Diem

4/01

     Contractor Tax Exemption

1/02

     Requirement for Cost or Pricing Data on Options

7/02

     Defective Pricing in Cost-type Contract

8/02

     Definitization of Letter Contract 

2/02

     Evaluation of a Ceiling Rate for G&A 6/00
     Fair and Reasonable Determinations 2/01
     Forward Pricing Rate Agreements 12/01
     Government Setting Contract Price 1/02
     No award based on price being too low 2/02
      Price Competition in Modifications 10/01
      Residual value of trade-in - Core Charge 5/01
      Solicitation Price Information, Interesting protest decision 4/01
     Something for Nothing 5/00
     Subcontractor Cost or pricing Data 6/02
     Use of price information and the exemptions from cost and pricing data 7/03
Protests
     Bid Protests

10/00

     Bid Protests under FAR 16.505(b)(2)

10/02

     Multiple Issues Within a Protest

3/03

     Protest after Award - Continued Performance

11/01

     Protest of Task Order

5/03

     Protest - Timeliness Question

4/02

     Protest Forums

11/00

     Reverse Auction Decision

11/01

Publicizing Contract Actions
     Am I required to solicit the Incumbent Contractor? 5/03
     When is a synopsis required for an action between $25,000 and $100,000? 11/01
Purchase Card
     Authority to use Purchase Cards 3/03
     Purchases Using Purchase Card 8/01
     Should Government Credit Cards Be Used for Purchases between $2,500 and $10,000? 3/01
Requirements, Specifications, Statements of Work
     FAR Provision & Clause matrix, Latest updated 9/07
     In Scope or Out of Scope 3/01
     Solicitation Requirements:  Another protest decision to get mad about 5/01
     Specification vs Scope of Work 3/02
     What does FAR 11.101 mean? 11/01
Research Development Test and Evaluation Contracting
     Can incidental items be included 2/01
Sealed Bidding Procedure
     Should Sealed Bidding be terminated for the convenience of the government? 5/00
Simplified Acquisition Procedures
     Buying Technical Manuals 2/02
     FAR Part 13 - Acceptance 3/01
     FAR Part 13-Why use "offer" 3/01
     Synopsis and FedBizOps 1/02
Small Business & HUBZone Issues
     Application of Limitation on Subcontracting Clause 8/01
     Best Value Contracting and Disadvantaged Business 9/00
     Contracting Officers Not Responding to SBA under FAR 19.505.(a) 2/01
      DoD and HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference 6/01
     HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference  (Part 1)  (Part 2) 2/01
     HUBZone Subcontracting 5/02
     HUBZone vs SDB Procedures 1/01
     Justification and Approval for 8(a) Set-Aside 11/00
     Manipulating Competition Thresholds 10/00
     NAFTA & Small Business 6/01
     Price Preference in Multiple Awards 12/03
     Small Business Participation Evaluation 8/00
     Small Business Program - Place of Performance 8/00
     Small Business Set-Aside:  Limitation on Subcontracting Issue 5/02
     Small Business Subcontracting Evaluation FAR 15.305 8/00
     Subcontracting with an 8(a) certified firm 5/00
     Ten Percent Price Evaluation Adjustment for Small Disadvantaged Business 2/01
     Unreasonable Price, Responsibility Determination, 8a Contractor 4/00
     Use of SIC/NAIC Codes in Solicitation 11/00
     Use of procurement to achieve broader policy objectives 7/00
     Veterans Preference 1/02
Solicitation Procedures
     Accepting new offers after close of solicitation 11/07
     Amendment Late in the Selection Process 9/02
     Delaying Proposal Due Dates 7/02
     Do I need a Need Justification & Approval? 7/00
     Proposing a Subcontractor or a Consultant 3/03
     RFP Addressed to an Individual 2/03
     Reviving an RFP after Closing Date 4/01
Source Selection
     Adjectival Rating System 3/02
     Analysis of Subfactor and Factor Ratings 2/02
     Colors in Source Selection 2/03
     Disclosing the identify of offerors before and after selection. 4/01
     Documentation Required for the Source Selection Decision 1/01
     Evaluate against standards in source selection 2/03
     Evaluating Every Technical Subfactor 5/03
     Excessive Time Between Solicitation Closing and Contract Award 3/03
     Extent/Results of Best Value Contracting 6/00
     GAO Nullifies FAR Part 15 Rewrite Redux 4/00
     Letter of Commitment to Work

5/01

     Relationship between Cost/Price and non-price factors

11/02

      Should Potential Contractors Pay to Play?

1/01

     Total Points Scoring Evaluation Method

12/01
     Trade-off Analysis 6/03

     Tradeoff Process and Evaluation

5/00
     Training for Source Selection Team Members (Part 1)  (Part 2) 9/00
     Use of Number Scores in DoD Source Selection 9/02
Source Selection - Past performance

     Discussions v. Negotiations

1/03
     Establishment of Competitive Range after Discussions 12/00
     "Neutral" Rating of Past Performance 6/01
     OFPP Memo of April 2, 2002  (Part 1)  (Part 2) 4/02
     Past Performance as a De Facto Responsibility Ddetermination 2/03
     Past Perrformance - confusion with performance reference scoring 8/01
     Past Performance Evaluation 4/01
     Age of Past Performance Information 8/00
     Relevance of relevancy 6/00
     Use of email in past performance evaluations 1/02
      When neutral is not 6/00
Tie Bids
     Tie Bids of Sealed Bidding 4/01
Warranties
     Termination - Surviving Warranty Obligations 7/00

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