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  1. Attached is a pdf and below is a link to a letter issued on this topic by OGE in 2007. Misuse of Government Position to Help Someone Get a Job Misuse of Government Position to Help.pdf
  2. Thanks to all for the comments. Ths feedback was helpful and insightful. The manner in which this came to my attention and the office politics makes it rather difficult and awkward for me to contact GSA at this point in time so I will need to give some thought as to what, if any, action I should take.
  3. Yes, Don Acquisition summarized my intent accurately. My question is not whether the min and max clauses are necessary but whether it is permissible to do this. I was hoping that someone knowedgeable about GSA Schedules or GSA Policy could weigh in on this. My concern is exactly as Don Acquisition articulates, that the agency may be inappropriately circumventing the competitive process. Any time I have awarded an IDIQ contract for $50+ Million, I posted it on FedBizOpps either full and open or as a small business set aside, but either way, there was a healthy opportunity for competition. It seems to me that hand picking 3 GSA Schedule holders to obtain proposals and award a $50 Million IDIQ contract on that basis compromises the integrity of the process. A fact I omitted from my initial post is that the 3 GSA Schedule holders were each given exactly one week to submit proposals and only one of the organizations submitted a viably competitive proposal, largely because they were already familiar with the work requirements from a previous contract. Maybe this is legal but it sure doesn't seem to satisfy the intent and spirit of open competition.
  4. I am familiar with the process by which orders, BPAs, and calls under those BPAs are issued under GSA Schedule using FAR Part 8 procedures, and ordering procedures established by GSA. But this following concept is new to me. Is it allowable to obtain proposals from 3 vendors under GSA Schedule and on the basis of those 3 proposals, award a contractually binding IDIQ contract with minimum and maximum ordering quantities? I recently came accross a contract where this was done. The resulting "IDIQ contract" contains FAR Clauses 52.216-18 and 19. The IDIQ contract minimum ordering quantity is $100,000 and the maximum is $50,000,000. The Government is now in a position to issue noncompetitive task orders totalling up to $50 Million over the next 5 years under this IDIQ contract. This is inconsistent with my understanding of how GSA Schedules operate but I have been unable to find anything that clearly prohibits or allows this technique. Can anyone illuminate the conceptual contracting principles that either make this approach permissible or prohibited? Thanks
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