Awards, protests and debriefs

My facilities maintenance firm keeps losing out on federal base contracts to the same two companies. We bid on federal contracts for NAICS 561210,...

You get the full bid tabulations for county and school contracts by following each entity's specific public records request process.

There is no central repository for winning proposals at the state or local level, and you will need to file a public records request for each one....

I'm trying to get ahead of the game on a big federal grounds maintenance contract I found on USAspending. The prime contractor has the current award...

When a debrief request landed on my desk, it always triggered a scramble. I was the contracting officer for a federal agency, handling services...

You should file an agency-level protest first. An agency-level protest based on an apparent solicitation impropriety must be filed before bid opening...

FPDS is still the system for reporting federal contract award data, but it is accessed through SAM.gov. Marcus is right about the reporting...

I just got the debrief for a city grounds maintenance contract, NAICS 561730, that was a small business set-aside. We lost, and the contracting...

A bid tabulation is a list of all bids received for an Invitation for Bid (IFB), typically showing the names of the bidders and their total proposed...

My small business bid on two contracts about two months ago and I haven't heard anything back. We submitted an offer for a school district furniture...

Jordan, a postaward debriefing can tell you whether your price was too high, but not how it compared to other specific offerors. The contracting...