Additive,
Alternate, or Deductive Bid Items |
Additive Bid Items |
9/01
|
Can Additives, Deductives, or Alternates be Used in Requests for
Proposals? |
12/01
|
Option vs. Additive Bid Item |
10/02 |
Proper Use of Additive/Deductive
Clause |
10/00
|
Awardee |
Contracting with Individuals |
1/03 |
Bid
and Proposal Submission |
Alteration
of the Bid Schedule by Bidder |
5/01
|
Are e-mailed unsolicited proposals considered
spam? |
5/03 |
"Confidential" Marked on Contractor
Documents |
2/03 |
Discrepancy between Hard Copy and Digital
Proposals |
2/03 |
Elaborate Proposals |
8/02 |
Is the Proposal Late? |
9/01
|
Limiting Proposal Size |
2/02
|
Virus in electronic proposals |
5/00
|
Canceling Invitation for Bids |
Canceling an IFB when low bid is less than funds available |
8/01 |
Competition |
At what level is a
sole-source J&A required? |
10/02 |
What's the value of
competition? |
11/00 |
Competition or Sole-Source on Follow-on
contracts |
2/02 |
Security v. Full and Open Competition |
12/02 |
Unique Supplier Items Sold Through a Dealer |
5/02 |
Contracting Out |
Consultant helping with contract
administration duties |
2/03 |
Contractor
Responsibility - FAR Part 9 issues |
Can an offeror be determined nonresponsible prior to an agency's set-aside decision?
|
12/03 |
Contractor Responsibility
|
6/01
|
Satisfactory Record
of Integrity and Business Ethics |
12/00
|
Contract
Types - Fixed-Price, Cost-Reimbursement, etc. |
Applying Award-feed Towards Overrun |
11/01
|
Are firm-fixed unit-price contracts
"firm-fixed-price" contracts? |
5/00
|
Award Fee Criteria for Corporate Management |
6/00
|
Award Fee Language Discrepancy |
4/02
|
Award Term and 5 year limitation |
1/01
|
Award Terms and the Service Contract Act |
3/02
|
Award Term Contracts |
6/00
|
Award Term - Legality |
2/03 |
Can "Not To Exceed (NTE)" be used on CPFF
Contracts? |
2/03 |
Change of Contract Type |
7/00
|
Commercial Items and Contract Incentives |
6/00
|
Cost Growth and Cover-ups on Cost Contracts |
12/00
|
Cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contracts |
7/01
|
Cost Plus Award Fee and the "unilateral"decision
to make fee award |
5/02
|
Do you have to give
an award fee in a CPAF contract that doesn't have a plan? |
1/01
|
Economic Price Adjustment - Fixed Price
Contract |
4/01
|
Fee again |
2/02
|
Fixed
Price Incentive - Successive Target |
9/00
|
Fixed Price Purchase Order |
1/03 |
Fixed Price Redetermination Contract |
12/00
|
Interim Award
Fee |
8/00
|
Level
of Effort v Term or Completion |
6/01
|
Limitation on Award Fees |
1/02
|
Motivating a Contractor on a Low Production Contract |
1/00
|
Need incentive examples |
7/00
|
One use for a Fixed-Price Incentive
Contract |
1/00
|
Profit and Fee Limitations
|
8/00
|
Profit Under T&M Contracts |
|
"To Be Negotiated" Line Items |
12/07 |
Time and Material Contracts on the
Compensation Spectrum |
3/03 |
Time and
Materials Contracts Questions
|
9/00
|
Time and Materials on Subcontracts
|
9/00
|
Travel Under Time & Material Contract
|
12/01
|
Wage Increases and CPAF Contracts
|
7/00
|
What do you make of this Award-Fee
language? |
4/02
|
Why do
we love incentives? |
9/00
|
Debriefing |
Content of Letters to
Losing Offerors |
9/02 |
Discussions
with Offerors
|
Clarifications vs Discussions |
5/03 |
Comptroller General
and National Projects Inc. (B-283887) |
7/02 |
Control of Exchanges with Offerors |
7/02
|
Discussions About Price |
6/01
|
Requirement to Re-open Negotiations |
12/01
|
Evaluation
Factors |
Basis for Award and Significance of
Factors |
5/02 |
Criteria for a Phased Proposal Evaluation
Process |
6/00 |
Experience Versus Training for IT Services |
2/00 |
Evaluation Criteria on Sealed Bidding |
4/01 |
Prohibition on Numerical Weighting for
Evaluation of Proposals |
3/01 |
Weighting of Evaluation Factors in
Solicitations (Part
1) (Part
2) |
4/01 |
Federal
Supply Schedules |
Acquiring Services from Multiple Award
Schedules |
10/02 |
Bypass Acquisition Office-GSA Program |
8/01 |
Can an Order Be Incrementally Funded? |
9/01 |
Dozing Contracting Organizations or
Fundamental Misunderstanding? |
1/01 |
8(a) Contracting under Schedules |
2/01 |
GSA Ordering Instructions, Interesting
Case Regarding |
4/01
|
GSA Schedules, Special
Ordering Provisions |
3/01 |
Lease Agreements Under Schedule for Personal Computers |
2/02 |
Market Research Using Federal Supply
Schedules |
7/01
|
Ordering of Services, Bid Protests,
and Streamlined Procedures |
10/00
|
Protest Decision
B-285164.3 (N&N Travel) |
9/00
|
Revealing
an Entity's GSA Schedule to a Prospective Competitor
|
7/02 |
Secretarial/Receptionist Support |
1/03 |
Sole Source GSA Award |
4/02
|
Synopsis Rules and
Federal Supply Schedules |
11/02 |
Time & Material Order on GSA Schedule 70 |
2/03 |
Using another entity's sole source
contract |
3/01
|
Final Proposal
Revisions |
Common Cut-Off Date |
2/01
|
Common Cut-Off Date - Round 2 |
3/03 |
Governmentwide
Acquisition Contracts |
CICA vs. Multiple Award Omnibus Contract |
1/03 |
Competing two GWACS |
6/01 |
Requirements Orders Under a Multiple Award
Task Order Contract |
7/03 |
Seeking Best Practices on GWACS, MACS,
MOBIS and GSA Schedules |
1/02 |
Indefinite
Delivery/Indefinite Quantity Contracts |
Advantages and
Disadvantages |
2/01 |
Award of Multi-Agency
Contract - OMB Approval |
10/00
|
Can a Request for quote be used to award
an IDIQ type contract? |
1/01 |
Ceiling Increase to Multiple Award IDIQ 8(a) |
7/00 |
Fair Opportunity |
11/01 |
IDIQ
Minimums |
10/01 |
IDIQ Contracts And Initial Obligation |
10/07 |
Multiple Award Coverage - Other Than FAR
16.504 |
4/02 |
New Opportunities under IDIQ Task Orders |
3/02 |
"Rolling IDIQ contracts" |
2/00 |
Selection of Vendors to Compete on
Task Orders |
10/00
|
Scope and Competition |
6/00 |
Task Orders for Severable Services |
8/01 |
Latent Defects |
Latent Defects and Warranties |
2/01 |
Leasing |
Modular Buildings -
Lease with option to purchase |
1/01
|
Options |
Options for Additional Work |
4/02
|
Oral
Presentations |
Fair Treatment During an
Oral Presentation |
8/02 |
How NOT to use oral presentations |
1/00
|
Oral Presentations
and Sample Tasks |
11/00
|
Oral Presentation that Covers Written
Proposal |
12/00
|
Rating Oral Presentations |
12/01
|
When to Use Oral Presentations |
1/00
|
Overseas and
International Contracting
|
Sending your contractor overseas |
1/02
|
Patents |
Use of Patented
Construction Designs |
11/00
|
Performance
Based Contracting |
Performance Based Contracting and OMB's Role |
5/01 |
PBSA |
6/01 |
Performance Based Service Contracting |
2/00 |
Performance-Based Service Contracting--What
is it? |
6/01 |
Performance Incentives for Research--Tell him About it!!! |
5/01 |
Relational Contract Language |
3/02 |
Post
Award Conference |
How to Prepare One |
10/01 |
Pricing
Issues |
Adequate Price Competition |
10/01
|
Allowable Costs - Relocation Expenses |
12/01
|
Are Ceiling Rates the Same
as Wrap Rates? |
10/02 |
Contractor Per Diem |
4/01 |
Contractor Tax Exemption |
1/02 |
Requirement for Cost or
Pricing Data on Options |
7/02 |
Defective Pricing in
Cost-type Contract |
8/02 |
Definitization of Letter Contract |
2/02 |
Evaluation of a Ceiling Rate for G&A |
6/00
|
Fair and Reasonable Determinations |
2/01 |
Forward Pricing Rate Agreements |
12/01
|
Government Setting Contract Price |
1/02 |
No award based on price being too low |
2/02 |
Price Competition in Modifications |
10/01 |
Residual
value of trade-in - Core Charge |
5/01 |
Solicitation Price Information, Interesting protest
decision |
4/01 |
Something for Nothing |
5/00 |
Subcontractor Cost or pricing Data |
6/02 |
Use of price information and the exemptions
from cost and pricing data |
7/03 |
Protests |
Bid Protests |
10/00 |
Bid Protests under
FAR 16.505(b)(2) |
10/02 |
Multiple Issues Within a Protest |
3/03 |
Protest after Award - Continued
Performance |
11/01 |
Protest of Task Order |
5/03 |
Protest - Timeliness Question |
4/02 |
Protest Forums |
11/00 |
Reverse Auction Decision |
11/01 |
Publicizing
Contract Actions |
Am I required to solicit the Incumbent
Contractor? |
5/03 |
When is a synopsis required for an action
between $25,000 and $100,000? |
11/01 |
Purchase Card |
Authority to use Purchase Cards |
3/03 |
Purchases Using Purchase Card |
8/01 |
Should Government Credit Cards Be Used for
Purchases between $2,500 and $10,000? |
3/01 |
Requirements,
Specifications, Statements of Work |
FAR Provision & Clause matrix,
Latest updated |
9/07 |
In Scope or Out of Scope |
3/01 |
Solicitation Requirements: Another protest decision to get mad about |
5/01 |
Specification vs Scope of Work |
3/02 |
What does FAR 11.101 mean? |
11/01 |
Research
Development Test and Evaluation Contracting |
Can incidental items be included |
2/01 |
Sealed
Bidding Procedure |
Should Sealed Bidding be terminated for the
convenience of the government? |
5/00 |
Simplified
Acquisition Procedures |
Buying Technical Manuals |
2/02 |
FAR Part 13 - Acceptance |
3/01 |
FAR Part 13-Why use "offer" |
3/01 |
Synopsis and FedBizOps |
1/02 |
Small
Business & HUBZone Issues |
Application of Limitation on
Subcontracting Clause |
8/01 |
Best Value
Contracting and Disadvantaged Business |
9/00 |
Contracting Officers Not Responding
to SBA under FAR 19.505.(a) |
2/01 |
DoD
and HUBZone Price Evaluation Preference |
6/01 |
HUBZone Price
Evaluation Preference (Part 1)
(Part 2) |
2/01 |
HUBZone Subcontracting |
5/02 |
HUBZone vs SDB Procedures |
1/01 |
Justification and Approval for 8(a)
Set-Aside |
11/00 |
Manipulating Competition Thresholds |
10/00 |
NAFTA & Small Business |
6/01 |
Price Preference in Multiple Awards |
12/03 |
Small Business Participation
Evaluation |
8/00 |
Small Business Program - Place of
Performance |
8/00 |
Small Business Set-Aside:
Limitation on Subcontracting Issue |
5/02 |
Small Business Subcontracting
Evaluation FAR 15.305 |
8/00 |
Subcontracting with an 8(a) certified firm |
5/00 |
Ten Percent Price Evaluation Adjustment for
Small Disadvantaged Business |
2/01 |
Unreasonable Price, Responsibility
Determination, 8a Contractor |
4/00 |
Use of SIC/NAIC
Codes in Solicitation |
11/00 |
Use of procurement to achieve broader policy
objectives |
7/00 |
Veterans Preference |
1/02 |
Solicitation
Procedures |
Accepting new offers after close of
solicitation |
11/07 |
Amendment Late in the Selection Process |
9/02 |
Delaying Proposal
Due Dates |
7/02 |
Do I need a Need Justification &
Approval? |
7/00 |
Proposing a Subcontractor or a Consultant |
3/03 |
RFP Addressed to an Individual |
2/03 |
Reviving an RFP after Closing Date |
4/01 |
Source
Selection |
Adjectival Rating System |
3/02 |
Analysis of Subfactor and Factor Ratings |
2/02 |
Colors in Source Selection |
2/03 |
Disclosing the identify of offerors before
and after selection. |
4/01 |
Documentation Required for the
Source Selection Decision |
1/01 |
Evaluate against standards in source selection |
2/03 |
Evaluating
Every Technical Subfactor |
5/03 |
Excessive Time Between Solicitation Closing
and Contract Award |
3/03 |
Extent/Results of Best Value Contracting |
6/00 |
GAO Nullifies FAR Part 15 Rewrite Redux |
4/00 |