Government Contracts

MARCH 8, 2024

Customs and Border Protection's decision to deny nine bidders spots on $900 million support deals, finding reasonable the agency's assessment that their past work wasn't similar enough to the requested artificial intelligence development services. The federal claims court cleared U.S.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 30, 2017

This is a follow-up to my recent blog posting about the new Washington state law adding compliance with the state's minimum wage laws as a mandatory bidder responsibility criterion. The bidder would then just sign one document. The revision to RCW 39.04.350 requires compliance with RCW 9A.72.085

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Court of Federal Claims ordered, agreeing with a bidder that the service hadn't met a condition to cancel the deal. Air Force must revive a solicitation for a refueling tanker console, the U.S.

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Scottish Government Procurement

OCTOBER 26, 2023

From this date, public bodies in Scotland will be required to treat bidders from the Republic of North Macedonia equally to bidders from the UK in their procurements covered by the UK’s Appendix 1 to the GPA.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 26, 2024

Government Accountability Office rejected a medical firm's efforts to again upend a pending $44 billion defense contract for professional medical services, saying the Defense Health Agency's revamped evaluation methodology appropriately accounted for bidders' proposed pricing.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 3, 2024

Navy to sole-source an office contract to one company, rejecting a prospective bidder's claims that it should have a chance to bid on the deal. Government Accountability Office has cleared the U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

All except one contract (Metro Manila) had multiple bidders. million by having multiple bidders. Reyes used it to create his own visualizations about the contracts, including a map of bike lane contracts in Metro Manila, a network analysis of bidders and contracts, and an itemized breakdown of the components of each contract.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

billion information technology deal, after being accused of unfairly evaluating bidders' proposals. Navy gave a shipbuilder $1.2 billion to begin its overdue overhaul of the USS Boise, and the U.S. Defense Health Agency expanded its contractor pool for a $2.5 These are Law360's top government contracts for February.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Court of Federal Claims to rule on its challenge to the terms of a solicitation seeking former military helicopters to fight forest fires, saying bidders are effectively being asked to violate federal law. A Michigan aviation company has asked the U.S.

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Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Department of Veterans Affairs from moving forward with a suicide-prevention support contract, finding that it unreasonably cut a bidder from contention based on subcontracting work on a similar deal. Court of Federal Claims has blocked the U.S.

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The Procurement School

JANUARY 22, 2024

This includes clients, current vendors and unsuccessful bidders of previous similar procurements. Time to Respond Bidders should be provided with sufficient time to review the procurement document, ask questions and submit a bid. Posting for complex, unique or highly technical procurements should be increased to attract more bidders.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 9, 2024

Army made a flawed analysis of bidders' pricing in a contest to provide waste disposal services at a Kansas base, a Court of Federal Claims judge concluded the error would not have disqualified the winning vendor. Although the U.S.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 5, 2024

Army reasonably found risky a bidder's cheaper proposal for a research support deal, justifying its decision to go with a company that had submitted a $153 million bid, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a decision released Friday.

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Fox Rothschild: Government Contracts

JANUARY 3, 2024

The general rule ( FAR 14.404-1(a) ) is that – once a solicitation is put out for bid – the agency must award the contract to the responsible bidder with the lowest responsive bid. However, as is usually the case, there are exceptions.

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The Procurement School

APRIL 22, 2024

In the above example success is measured by the bidder meeting the technical specifications, including on time delivery at or below the approved procurement value. If there is a good understanding of the number of potential bidders and their capacity this minimizes the requirement for market analysis.

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

General Services Administration appropriately deemed a bidder's vague subcontracting arrangement a risk. Government Accountability Office upheld a $13.2 million contract seeking financial support services for the Uniformed Services University, ruling that the U.S.

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Government Contracts

DECEMBER 6, 2023

million Air Force software contract over concerns with a vendor's contracting history, saying the only evidence of the purported problems was a "self-serving statement" offered by a protesting rival bidder. Government Accountability Office has refused to upend an $86.4

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Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Government Accountability Office has turned away a naval contractor's protest to the bidding terms for a task order seeking Guantanamo Bay construction workers, saying the terms didn't place the bidder at a competitive disadvantage.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Department of Veterans Affairs' supply chain, saying the VA reasonably scrutinized bidders' financial health as part of the deal. Government Accountability Office has denied a protest by IBM over the terms of a solicitation to modernize the U.S.

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Government Contracts

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Army's decision to invalidate a bid for a $106 million support deal over missing responses to the contract's 180 subtasks, finding the Army put bidders on notice that they needed responses for each. Government Accountability Office backed the U.S.

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LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

JANUARY 3, 2024

The general rule ( FAR 14.404-1(a) ) is that – once a solicitation is put out for bid – the agency must award the contract to the responsible bidder with the lowest responsive bid. However, as is usually the case, there are exceptions.

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders. Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise. It contains questions on both exclusion and selection criteria.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 12, 2024

White House Reveals Better Contracting Initiative Procedures for reporting on veteran-owned small businesses need improvement, according to GAO GSA finds federal tech accessibility challenges driven by lack of staff, resources Federal Real Property: Improved Data and Access Needed for Employees with Disabilities Using Secure Facilities SBA Marks One-Year (..)

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Scottish Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The SPD is a standard questionnaire that allows buyers to identify suitably qualified and experienced bidders. Bidders will use their SPD response to indicate whether their organisations meet the requirements to participate in the procurement exercise. It contains questions on both exclusion and selection criteria.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 12, 2024

The government, wanting to spend wisely, is often going to choose the lowest bidder. It puts out a call for proposals, and contractors submit their bids for what it would cost them to do the work. Whether by design or inadvertence, that low bid doesn’t reflect the real price of the work, and soon, the change orders start rolling in.

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

APRIL 17, 2017

Additional Mandatory Bidder Responsibility Criterion: Senate Bill 5301 adds to the list of mandatory bidder responsibility criteria in RCW 39.04.350 that public agencies must check on and validate prior to awarding any public works project. The new criterion relates to the contractor's compliance with the state's minimum wage laws.

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Public Contracting Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

The agency made award to the next-lowest bidder at its bid price. Bidders are not permitted to revise bids when granting an extension to their bid because this is tantamount to submitting a second bid after bid opening—something that is contrary to competitive bidding principles. GAO set forth three reasons for denial of the protest.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 4, 2024

That will mean continued protests by disappointed bidders. And after amending the solicitation 16 times, the agency received proposals from 1,150 bidders. Tom Temin It sounds like NIH wanted to create a marketplace with as many bidders as they could fit in. You can learn a lot from protests that have already been settled.

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The Procurement School

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Much has been written about mandatories, but they are to be evaluated on a pass (yes) or fail (no) basis and must relate to the bidders’ ability to provide the requested goods / services. A mandatory is a mandatory and if a bidder fails it generally cannot proceed further.

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BLP

AUGUST 24, 2023

Expression of interest: Bidders seeking to participate in the public tender must state their interest in obtaining the procedural documentation by email to adqinstitucionales@bcie.org. Submission deadline: The deadline for receipt of bids is September 26, 2023. You can find the Terms of Reference of the public tender at this link.

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Telles.eu

JULY 3, 2023

As it happens, as far as I know, the preferred bidder is going to use the shed for manufacturing the trains. And as we have seen the jury of the procedure could not care less where the trains were actually built since it gave all bidders the same score in the relevant award criterion.

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GovCon & Trade

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On December 21, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) dismissed a protest by ELS, an unsuccessful bidder on a Department of Defense (DOD) task order opportunity, concluding that it did not have jurisdiction to consider it. GAO reasoned that because “the value of the task order [was] below $25,000,000.

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Tracker Intelligence

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Follow our advice on understanding tender technical requirements, exhibiting your expertise, avoiding common mistakes, and beating out rival bidders for these complex and demanding RFPs. Referrals lend credibility as prequalified bidders provide more lead time and give exclusive tailored insight into client bid expectations.

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BLP

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Significantly, the winning bidders must ensure the availability of funds during the contract’s term. The Government of Guatemala promotes two competitive public procurement events (tenders) for the construction or expansion of hospitals, with financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI).

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Government Contracts & Investigations

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

These notable pre-award victories are broken down into three basic categories: (1) unreasonable bidder qualification requirements; (2) unreasonable elimination from competition; and (3) improper solicitation requirements. Notably, half of the successful protests before the COFC in FY23 were pre-award protests.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 3, 2019

When a bidder submits a bid or proposal in response to an invitation for bids or a request for proposals , they need to commit to their bid (this is done on the bid or proposal submission form) and also to how long the bid / proposal can be considered effective (this is what is commonly called the bid or proposal validity period).

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Telles.eu

JULY 14, 2023

This was due to the issue of the economic advantage gained by the preferred bidder (consortium led by Alstom) where all other tender participants could have obtained the same benefit.

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