Lighthouse

There was no intention to enter into discussions. To keep the topic simple, here's a restatment of the issue: The time period for acceptance of offers as stated in the solicitation has come and passed, all offerors proposals show the time for acceptance has lapsed. Has anyone encountered a situation like this? What was the remedy?

Real life. It shouldn't be, but reality shows it is. Situation: During review of an RFP, it was discovered the period for acceptance of offers expired and the CS did not ask offerors to extend the period of acceptance for their proposals - - before the time period lasped. The time period for acceptance of offers as stated in the solicitation has come and passed, all offerors proposals show the time for acceptance has lapsed. There is limited legal precedent on this issue as related to the fact stated above. There were some GAO cases shown, however, this situation did not fall into any of the categories listed. The RFP was not slated to enter into discussions, there was no request for final price revision, in fact, the procurement did not enter this realm. It was at the conclusion of evaluations (during internal review) this issue was discovered. Has anyone encountered a sitauation like this? What was the remedy?

As a member of a Federal procurement policy team, I've been asked if I'm aware of any prohibition that precludes a Contracting Officer (CO) from serving as the chair of a Technical Evaluation Panel (TEP). Background: The requirement consists of furnishing support services for a multitude of different offices, of which, no one office wants to take the lead as project manager. There is discussion that management is now steering the requirement back to the CO to take the lead as the TEP chair. Although the FAR does not descriptively detail the separation of duties that comes to mind regarding this situation, my instinct is that although there is no specific probihition for doing this, my experience tells me this is a potentially volatile conflict of interest situation and that it may not necessarily be the best business decision to employ to handle this. Keenly interested if anyone has encountered this situation, and what was the outcome? Other thoughts and/or suggestions are also invited.