Competitive solicitation to set up a three-year BPA on a GSA schedule.

The RFP includes a CLIN for each type of analysis, with an estimated quantity for each. Offerors are to quote a unit price for each type of analysis.

The RFP also asks for GSA schedule labor rates (requesting quantity discounts of course), such rates to be incorporated into the K.

The RFP states:

"Although this is a Firm Fixed price BPA the Government reserves the right to use T&M CLINs - change from CLN if the need should arise. Furthermore, the Government reserves the right to negotiate all CLINS into a firm fixed price CLINs, if there are associated extensions to the individual task orders."

Does that last sentence mean the government can convert the fixed unit prices into T&M after award? How is such thing possible?

Or does it mean all the fixed unit price CLINs can be combined into one FP? (The typo, "a...CLINs" is confusing.)

Or does it only mean that additional CLINs may be awarded, T&M, with options, but with the options conditioned on the government's 'negotiating" a fixed price for the option? If so, how will the FP be determined? Isn't that an unpriced option?"

Ask the CO as only he/she knows what they were thinking when they wrote it. And sometimes they don't know what they meant either.