tranceaddict Posted December 17, 2020 Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 Hello - I'm in the beginning phases of the acquisition process and am exploring whether there is anything precluding me from awarding a multiple award IDIQ contract off of a BAA using FAR 35 and specific agency procedures. I've never done one before so I'm wondering if it can be done. We are thinking of soliciting, evaluating, and selecting the contractors through an amendment to an existing BAA. The companies with the capability to provide the requirements are small, mostly companies that grew out of universities. Many thanks! Trance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Mansfield Posted December 17, 2020 Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 Nothing prohibits IDIQ and I actually have experience with that. However, I don't understand the "multiple-award" part. I understand multiple-award to imply award of multiple contracts of the same scope resulting from a single solicitation and subsequent competition for task or delivery orders. Proposals under a BAA are likely to be very different and I would expect the scope of each contract to be different. If what you mean is that you want to negotiate and award more than one IDIQ contract in response to multiple proposals received in response to a BAA, then I don't see a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaddict Posted December 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 Thanks Don. Yes, in terms of "multiple award" we want to award multiple awards of indefinite-quantity contracts under a single solicitation for the same or similar supplies or services to two or more sources. We'd then compete the task orders amongst the awardees and specify the scope within the statement of work for that specific task order. The FAR states that the BAA technique shall only be used when meaningful proposals with varying technical/scientific approaches can be reasonably anticipated. So if we can expect meaningful proposals, nothing would preclude me then, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Mansfield Posted December 17, 2020 Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 So the task order competition would be like a mini-BAA? You'd get varying proposals within a broad research area? I don't see a problem with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceaddict Posted December 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2020 12 hours ago, Don Mansfield said: So the task order competition would be like a mini-BAA? You'd get varying proposals within a broad research area? I don't see a problem with that. Awesome - thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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