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Jordan, a postaward debriefing can tell you whether your price was too high, but not how it compared to other specific offerors. The contracting...
Awards, protests and debriefs
After submission the useful information arrives in the award notice, the debrief and the bid tabulation. A federal debrief has deadlines in FAR 15.505 and 15.506; a state or county bid tab is usually a public record you can request. This category covers how to ask for a debrief that gets a useful answer, when a protest is worth filing, what a bid tabulation tells you, and how to track a recompete.
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You should file an agency-level protest first. An agency-level protest based on an apparent solicitation impropriety must be filed before bid opening...
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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...
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You file a protest with the agency or with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the cost to go to GAO is a $500 filing fee, plus any legal...
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You get the full bid tabulations for county and school contracts by following each entity's specific public records request process.
Marcus T.Verified vendorasked
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You can find award information for federal contracts on SAM.gov, and for state or local contracts on the relevant state procurement portal. For the...
Priya S.Verified vendorasked
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When a debrief request landed on my desk, it always triggered a scramble. I was the contracting officer for a federal agency, handling services...
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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...
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FPDS is still the system for reporting federal contract award data, but it is accessed through SAM.gov. Marcus is right about the reporting...
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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....
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My facilities maintenance firm keeps losing out on federal base contracts to the same two companies. We bid on federal contracts for NAICS 561210,...
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I lost two federal opportunities this month and requested a debrief for both. One was a GSA Schedule order for court reporting services, NAICS...
Luis A.Verified vendorasked
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We were the low bidder on a county paving IFB for a local road project, but the gap between us and the next bidder is significant. My team found a...
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Yes. FAR 36.607(b) says unsuccessful A-E firms get debriefed, and that includes firms cut at the shortlist, but the debrief happens after final...