here_2_help Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Admittedly I'm not the smartest -- and certainly not the most experienced -- contracts guy. I did that gig for a few years before I decided I liked the cost accounting and compliance side of the house better. Anyway in yesterday's DoD Contract Award notification (available at www.defense.gov) I saw the following notification: [Midwest Defense Contractor] was awarded a $494,999,925 ORDER DEPENDENT CONTRACT for software and system development and integration onto the CH-47, MH-47, MH-6, MH/UH/HH/VH-60, VH-3, MH-65 and all their variants, including potential foreign military sales requirements. Funding and work location will be determined with each order with an estimated completion date of April 2020. Bids were solicited via the Internet with one received. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-15-D-0016). (CAPS added for emphasis.) Maybe I'm behind the times, but what kind of contract is that? Funding to be determined with each order but the total contract value was extremely specific. How does that work? How would you estimate that? How would you bill start-up costs or sustaining or PM until you had an order in hand? It's not an ID/IQ (because I think they would have said so if it were) and it's not a BOA (because it's a contract) and I don't see how it can be a requirements contract (because it's development), so what is this thing? Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks H2H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwomack Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Maybe they’re completing the project in phases as funding becomes available. With notice of funding via “order”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted April 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 jwomack, Maybe. But if so, wouldn't award of a standard contract type plus use of incremental funding be more ... traditional? H2H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
policyguy Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Based on the contract number and IAW DFARS 204.7003 (a)(3)(iv) with position nine as "D" it is suppose to be Indefinite delivery contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
here_2_help Posted April 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Hi policyguy, I'm sure you're right (even though I could not find the DFARS regulation you cited). If so, wouldn't it have been a lot easier -- and perhaps less confusing -- to have reported award of an indefinite delivery contract? Thanks for your insight. H2H Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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