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  1. Gordon Shumway
    Why don't you want to evaluate price? I'm asking from a very basic level, ignoring what the FAR says and how price is discussed in the Sevatec case you referenced.
  2. Gordon Shumway
    What's wrong with trade-offs? Under the source selection procedures for the parts you mentioned, the evaluation process should already be streamlined. If it isn't, perhaps that would be a good place to start with "innovation." This approach might be easier to sell to management, and then if successful, would give you credibility to expand into the area on the continuum outside of LPTA and trade-off. Also, use caution when structuring evaluation factors as pass/fail when small businesses are involved.
  3. Gordon Shumway
    @Fear & Loathing in Contracting Simply put, you should not do what you stated above. I'm sure with more details, plenty of people on this board could offer you suggestions on how to structure a competitive procurement. But 'eliminating' firms via the RFI process isn't a good start.
  4. Gordon Shumway
    And just so I am tracking, what does "SW" stand for?
  5. Gordon Shumway
    Why not explore the BAA route?
  6. Gordon Shumway
    Ahhh I see... that explains the third piece of the protest... 3. Protest challenging the agency’s choice of a fixed-price contract is denied, where the agency is not prohibited from allocating substantial financial risk to the contractor.
  7. Gordon Shumway
    http://www.wifcon.com/cgen/414223.pdf I just read this protest on my lunch break and found it very odd. Correct me if I am wrong, but did the incumbent contractor just try to protest away its 'incumbent advantage'?! 1. Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation as ambiguous is denied, where the solicitation provides offerors with sufficient information to compete intelligently and on a relatively equal basis, and where the information requested, much of which is proprietary to the protester, is not necessary for offerors to be able to draft their proposals. 2. Protest arguing that the solicitation should resolve an alleged ambiguity by including the protester’s proprietary data, after the protester waives its rights in the data, is dismissed where the protester failed to establish that it is an interested party to challenge the lack of data in the absence of any competitive prejudice.
  8. Gordon Shumway
    You should reach out to Mr. Keven Barnes, he seems to be an expert on this topic.
  9. Gordon Shumway
    This! Set WIFCON as your homepage if you have not already.
  10. Gordon Shumway
    The perfect example of this is how the DOD buys knowledge based services. In fact, I've seen a Navy agency, for a single requirement, switch from SeaPort-e (non-commercial) to GSA FSS (commercial) and then back to SeaPort-e with no understanding of the commercial item determination, nor its impact on the contemplated business arrangement.
  11. Gordon Shumway
    The danger is, if the government buys the item commercially because that is how the rest of that particular industry sells it, then you are going to miss out on a lot of business opportunities. Your market could have 0 customers. (My answer assumes that you are arbitrarily choosing to classify your item as non-commercial, from how I read your initial statement.)
  12. Gordon Shumway
    It's an acquired, yet necessary skill as an 1102. God speed in your career, Deaner.
  13. Gordon Shumway
    Perhaps there is a chance that your question will be answered once you move forward. Such experiences, good or bad, stick with us longer than an answer in a message board thread.
  14. Gordon Shumway
    If you want to? Are you that lonely and/or bored?
  15. Gordon Shumway
    Rise of the machines, I think I saw this in a movie once. It didn't end well...
  16. Gordon Shumway
    I would suggest a burn phone. Agency IG's love this type of stuff.
  17. Gordon Shumway
    Ad Hoc report generation, and the subsequent export into Excel for analysis purposes, only works if the data has some integrity. When I was an 1102, I always took the time to accurately populate the contract action report, but such attention to detail seems to be the exception not the rule. How do other people do it? Blindfolded and typing with their toes? Sure seems like it... #MCGA
  18. Gordon Shumway
    Sad! #MakeContractingGreatAgain
  19. Gordon Shumway
    LOL good one, Pepe!
  20. Gordon Shumway
    No
  21. Gordon Shumway
    You are reading too much into this. You can't conclude that from the announcement you quoted. No offense, but your understanding of what an IDIQ is and the mechanics behind the vehicle are way off. You should read Subpart 16.5—Indefinite-Delivery Contracts. Then, to see the difference when compared to a BOA, you should read Subpart 16.7—Agreements.
  22. Gordon Shumway
    Excellent, I received The Undoing Project as a Christmas gift, but haven't had a chance to crack it open yet. My mom seems to pick out the best books haha! I will move this to the top of my reading list.
  23. Gordon Shumway
    The "D" in the contract number indicates that this is a indefinite-delivery contract. Just by reading your post, it seems that the Army has awarded an IDIQ contract, structured so that FFP type orders can be placed off of it. If so, that should answer your two questions; (1) indefinite quantities, where the cost risk of each (future) order will be placed on the contractor and (2) each order ("F") will be funded once issued. Pretty standard practice.
  24. Gordon Shumway
    If it's not clear how one would be determined the highest rated technical approach, wouldn't your evaluation criteria be flawed? Under LPTA, the government is still obtaining "best value."
  25. Gordon Shumway
    For task orders/delivery orders under 16.505, we are using a different standard of competition ("fair opportunity"). Although the contracting officer "may exercise broad discretion in developing appropriate order placement procedures," one must be cautioned not to structure such selections like a FAR Part 15 source selection. Why make life harder than it has to be?! Innovation in the area of order submission requirements is a wide open field that few seem inclined to tackle... I've seen far too often FAR Part 15 Section L & M's copy and pasted into order RFPs. I guess those 1102s don't already have enough work to do...
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